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Chances gaming centre asks council to roll the dice on more slots and a liquor licence

Target was likely gangster Lance Wust ROCHELLE BAKER RBaker@abbotsfordtimes.com

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ome neighbours aren’t surprised a family home in rural Abbotsford was mistakenly shot up by someone targeting a high level member of the Duhre Group on early Sunday.

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abbotsfordtimes.com “I heard three to four shots go off quick and then another four or five go.”

– Hope Ave. resident

A request to add more slots and a liquor license to Chances on Peardonville Road will likely divide council and Abbotsford residents.

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to say council is divided,” said Peary.

“There are those that think . . . we shouldn’t fetter [the gaming operator], and others who bbotsford City Council revisited the are generally opposed to gambling, and didn’t divisive issue of slot machines yes- support the original application and aren’t terday. likely to support expansion.”

Chances community gaming centre The original plan to establish slot machines has made a rezoning application for more slot generated protracted debate within council machines and to obtain a liquor licence. and the community at large.

Council was expected to As many as 500 people – supdebate whether to allow the pro- First reported @ porters and detractors – packed posals to go to public hearings abbotsfordtimes.com one of the city’s largest public at its meeting Monday afterhearings in the fall of 2007. noon (results were not available at press time Council voted to allow Abbotsford Bingo to – visit www.abbotsfordtimes.com for the evolve into Chances community gaming centre outcome). complete with 125 slot machines in November Abbotsford Mayor George Peary said council of the same year. would likely split on the issue.

Owned by Playtime Community Gaming “I think it’s worthy of discussion, and it’s fair Centres Inc., Chances opened up its new Pear-

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“This is the only location in the province that does not serve alcohol, so we’re just conforming with everybody else.”

– Tom Nellis Playtime president

donville Road location in June 2009.

Playtime president Tom Nellis said the gaming centre can’t meet local demand with the current number of slot machines.

The BC Lottery Corporation (BCLC) has already approved the additions, and would allow the addition of 25 to 50 machines at a time depending on the need, said Nellis. see CHANCES, page A4

“It’s been a longtime coming,” said one resident along Hope Avenue, who didn’t want to be named.

There has been a lot of suspicious activity and police presence along the road since two men moved into the neighbourhood a little more than two months ago.

“Rumour has it they are pretty high-up gangsters,” said the resident.

“There are weirdos coming up in cars and parking on the road. There are kids around here, and I worry about them.”

Sources have identified one of the men as Lance Wust.

Wust was facing drugs and weapons charges following an Abbotsford arrest in May, but the charges have been stayed.

However, he has an upcoming trial in Abbotsford for the charge of uttering threats on April 5.

Wust has a long record of criminal charges and a relationship with the

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A new composite sketch of a missing woman whose skull was found in 1995.

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Briefly Abbotsford Rural Ratepayers meeting The Abbotsford Rural Ratepayers committee is hosting an open meeting on Wednesday to discuss property taxes and the role the issue should play in the November municipal election.

Daren Alary, committee spokesman, said it was important to find suitable civic candidates that would stop tax increases in tough economic times.

“We need candidates that will insist that city staff bring in budgets with increases no higher than the rate of inflation,” said Alary. The meeting is scheduled at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 23 at Bradner Hall, 5305 Bradner Road.

Breast cancer survivor Edith Goodfellow runs the Women with Cancer Centre in Abbotsford and is thrilled that a Good Samaritan has stepped up to help the group stay afloat with a financial donation.

Samaritan steps up against cancer

Women’s support group lives on thanks to donation CAM TUCKER camtuckertimes@gmail.com

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dith Goodfellow remembers a time not too long ago when Women with Cancer, a support group she facilitates, almost died off.

The Canadian Cancer Society, which the small support group out of Abbotsford belonged to, notified Goodfellow in January 2010 that all funding would be stopped, thanks in large part to the economic downturn.

“We were sort of left on our own,” said Goodfellow, a cancer survivor herself.

Women with Cancer is there for

women, both young and old, who have His help meant the world to Women been diagnosed with cancer. with Cancer, said Goodfellow.

It operates on a budget of $1,500 “He took a chance. He’s made it posper year. sible for us to continue.”

The group offers the opportunity for Sigaty was the only person to respond women to hear from and speak to other to the ad. women who have had to go through His initial donation was $500, and cancer, and it acts almost he continues to fund the like a family, said Goodprogram, but remains “He took a chance. fellow. modest about his contriMany rely on it for helpbution. ing them get through the He’s made it possible “There are a lot of feelordeals of cancer, but it ings involved in that, of may have been long dead for us to continue.” course, and it’s hard to if it wasn’t for the genput into words,” he said. erous donation from a “There’s no substitute Good Samaritan.

– Edith Goodfellow for being able to talk to After seeing a newspasomebody who is really per ad put out by Women walking in your shoes.” with Cancer as a means to attract donaAbbotsford Regional Hospital has tions, George Sigaty decided he would also stepped in, putting up signs for like to help the cause after his wife Women with Cancer in order to spread passed away from cancer. the word about the group.

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ill Wilson was selling homemade whirligigs from a roadside stand near Mission, and stopped to fill his water bottle in a small creek when he spotted something that resembled an old bowl. He used his bottle to flip over the object. It wasn’t a bowl. Staring up at him was half of a human skull.

That was 1995.

Police called the victim Jane Doe: they didn’t know her name, when she died, how her skull ended up in the swamp or where the rest of her remains were hidden.

It’s 16 years later and officers still don’t have the answers. But at least now they have a face — or a second-best guess.

Thanks to modern technology, a new composite sketch of Jane Doe has been created for B.C.’s Missing Women Task Force in the hopes it will see SKETCH, page A9

Gangster Clay Roueche files suit against APD/B.C. gov’t KIM BOLAN Vancouver Sun

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nited Nations gang founder Clay Roueche filed a suit against the B.C. government and two police agencies Friday for violating his Charter rights by helping U.S. law enforcement capture him.

Roueche said Canadian policing agencies never should have turned over evidence they had against him in B.C. – including wiretaps – to U.S.

prosecutors working on his drug smuggling case.

The lawsuit was filed just three days after Roueche’s tearful apology in a Seattle courtroom for his role in a massive international drug ring that transported thousands of pounds of marijuana and hundreds of kilos of cocaine.

Roueche told U.S. District Court Judge Robert Lasnik he was taking responsibility for the suffering he had caused working in the drug

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Lasnik sentenced Roueche to 30 years behind bars.

Roueche pleaded guilty to three drug counts and one of money laundering in April 2009.

He was arrested 11 months earlier after attempting to enter Mexico and being turned back by police there.

Roueche’s lawsuit claims police in B.C. did “unlawfully request the Mexican authorities to detain the plaintiff upon his arrival in Mexico, deny the plaintiff entry into Mexico and ensure that the plaintiff board a plane which would land in the U.S.” A f t e r h i s a r re s t i n t h e U . S .

Roueche’s Coquitlam condo was searched by the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit, where a handgun, handcuffs and a bala-

clava were found among other things.

Roueche said his rights were violated when CFSEU gave details of the search to U.S. authorities.

Named as defendants in the suit are the attorney-general and solicitor-general of B.C., as well as the Vancouver Police Department and the Abbotsford Police Department.

None of the defendants have yet filed responses.

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Abby smuggling ring nets U.S. warrants Police suspect connection with local Hells Angels KIM BOLAN Vancouver Sun

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nother group of suspected B.C. drug smugglers – who police believe worked on behalf of the Hells Angels in an Abbotsford-based operation – has been indicted in Washington state.

U.S. warrants were issued Wednesday for Dustin Meehan, Justin Harris, Ronald Lochbaum and Gordy Dahms, alleging they transported major shipments of marijuana across the border for several years using various methods to conceal the illicit loads.

The four are alleged to have worked with Abbotsford traffickers Rob Shannon, Jody York, Devron Quast, Edward “Skeeter” Russell and others who have already been

Attorney alleges in court documents.

Specifically, the indictment says Harris came up with the scheme to hide pot sentenced or pleaded guilty in Seattle. shipments in the false walls of semis, and Shannon was earlier handed a 20-year Dahms modified the vehicles and loaded sentence, while Quast who testified against the marijuana in difference compartments. him, got six years.

Others in the gang negotiated the contracts York and Russell, and six others who were and created fictitious companies and false charged last October have pleaded guilty paperwork. but are yet to be sentenced.

The gang is also alleged to The latest indictment says First reported @ have “regularly smuggled curthe four new suspects “collab- abbotsfordtimes.com rency from Canada to the Unitorated to operate a marijuana ed States to pay the members transportation and distribution organized of the organization who were based in the based in British Columbia.”

United States.”

The drug gang concealed their pot in Lochbaum was also charged on the indicttruckloads of bark, PVC sewer pipes, inside ment unsealed last October when York, Skeefalse walls, floors and ceilings of refriger- ter Russell and several others entered guilty ated semi-trailers, cargo containers and pleas for their roles in the drug scheme. campers.

They are scheduled to be sentenced March The new defendants’ main role was to get 25. The four new accused are known to clients for the drug distribution, the U.S. police in B.C.

5,500 pigeons pinched, cops puzzled

$20,000 worth of birds seem to have vanished into thin air ROCHELLE BAKER RBaker@abbotsfordtimes.com

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bbotsford Police are ruffled over a spike in livestock thefts that has resulted in 5,500 pigeons disappearing into thin air.

Const. Ian MacDonald said thieves have targeted three different operations on three separate occasions since November.

The largest hauls involved the theft of 4,000 birds in November and another loss of 1,300 animals close to Valentine’s Day. The thieves seem to be honing

in on pigeons, raised for the dinner table as squab, but seven goats were also stolen in a separate incident, MacDonald.

“It’s obviously unusual. How many people in Abbotsford are even aware of pigeon operations, much less where they are located?” he asked.

In an effort to track down the birds police even went online.

“Everybody sells everything on Craigslist, and we couldn’t preclude the possibility someone would be selling 4,000 pigeons,” said MacDonald.

The theft may seem somewhat comical, and the police

file coordinator has now been labelled the “fowl coordinator,” but the APD is taking the case seriously, said MacDonald.

“Our crime analyst has liaised with the [Langley] RCMP about livestock thefts, and we found similar incidents were taking place in the neigbouring jurisdiction.”

The operators have estimated their birds sell anywhere from $3 to $10 each, said MacDonald.

“We joke about it, but if you average it out, that’s five bucks a head and around $20,000 in stock lost.”

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A spike in livestock thefts recently resulted in the disappearance of 5,500 pigeons.

CHANCES, from page A1 “It would be done in increments, and if we maintain enough business, more would be added over time,” he said, noting BCLC will set a maximum number of slots for the facility.

Resistance to slot machines has dropped across B.C., and the six other Chances locations have added machines and have liquor licences, he said.

“This is the only location in the province that does not serve alcohol, so we’re just conforming with everybody else. It’s just that people would like a beer or glass of wine with dinner.”

There have been no reported problems at the Abbotsford location, and the number of gamblers with a chronic problem has remained steady at 3.8 per cent despite a rise in gaming across the province, he added.

The operation hopes to have the machines and licence in place within six months.

The city and a number of non-profit organizations receive revenue from gaming, Peary said, adding the city gets around $800,000 a year in non-tax revenue. And a total of $4.24 million in provincial gaming grants was handed out to125 Abbotsford community and charity groups in 2009/10.

However, Peary was cautious about painting too rosy a picture.

“Opponents look at what they deem to be a dark side. They speak of people – often those who can least afford it – spending rent or food money [on gambling].”

Debate on the issue is bound to be spirited no matter the end result, Peary said.

“Whether expanding the current operation will be as contentious as it was to establish it remains to be seen,” he said.

“But if at the end of the day council decides go to public hearing, it’s likely to be a long and animated evening . . . and politicians will ultimately have to make a decision.”

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Clay Paul Reeves, 46, was sentenced in B.C. Supreme Court in Chilliwack Wednesday.

He w a s c h a r g e d w i t h attempted murder and discharging a firearm with intent to wound. Last month, he pleaded guilty to the lesser included offence of aggravated assault as well as the firearm charge.

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embers of the Abbotsford Police Department will be out in full force Wednesday, with a little twist to their usual wardrobe.

Every member of the APD will be wearing pink as part of the Pink Shirt Day, an anti-bullying campaign started in 2007 by a pair of high school kids from Nova Scotia.

“It’s a really good thing,” said APD spokesman Const. Ian MacDonald.

Officers on patrol will still be wearing their normal police uniforms, with pink shirts on underneath. While “Gangsters are bullies.” s c h o o l s a c r o s s Abbotsford will be – Const. Ian MacDonald APD donning pink to bring attention to bullies that lurk within those doors, MacDonald said there are many forms in our everyday society, including criminal activity and gangsters.

“Gangsters are bullies,” MacDonald said.

“They’re involved in the drug trade and you can add all the other factors to it, but at the end of the day, they’re bullies, and it’s not just to the people in the community, but to each other.”

He added that there will be a press conference Wednesday that will tie the pink theme in with a major announcement, although Monday he could not elaborate on what that would be.

On Tuesday the APD is expected to release more information; visit www.abbotsfordtimes. com for updates.

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Various community groups, including the Abbotsford Police Department, will wear pink as part of Pink Shirt Day, an anti-bully campaign.

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Grade 5 students at Alexander Elementary won’t just be the only students in Abbotsford to take part in Pink Shirt Day, as all schools in the district are set to mark the occasion with the hopes of enlightening others on bullying, and its many forms.

Abbotsford School District spokesman Dave Stephen said Wednesday’s event provides important lessons to teachers and students on the subject, but shouldn’t be restricted to just one day a year.

“While there is one day where we acknowledge and promote it, we are involved every school day with observing the tenants of antibullying,” he said.

“Certainly it’s there. Our administrators, teachers, counselors are on it as best

and as fully as they can, but we’d be naive to say it doesn’t happen.”

Stephen said bullying still takes the form of students getting physically intimidated, but it has transformed into a more online version in recent years. One of the most publicized incidents of online bullying occurred this fall, when a 16-year-old female was forced to leave her high school after she was raped at a party in Pitt Meadows and numerous slurs were made towards her on the Internet in the following days.

Photos of the act also made their way online. Stephen said monitoring this form of bullying can be difficult, especially since it requires students to come forward.

“If it’s a site that we don’t h a v e a n y c o n t r o l ov e r, and Facebook is a perfect example of that, it can be a challenge.”

Pink Shirt Day began in 2007, when David Shepherd and Travis Price, two teens from a high school in Nova Scotia, decided to stand up to bullies who had been harassing a Grade 9 student by donning the colour.

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sent to nearly every police agency and detachment in Canada, as well as to many in Washington State.

Her DNA has also been sent to every police lab in the country for comparison to other unsolved missing-women files.

Police last issued a public appeal in the case in 2000, releasing a far-less-detailed composite sketch and airing a CrimeStoppers segment on local TV. Jane Doe was back in the headlines after police made a shocking find in 2002 while searching Robert (Willie) Pickton’s pig farm for evidence in the notorious serial murder case: A heel and rib bone with the same DNA as the skull were found buried in a pit behind a slaughterhouse.

Pickton was charged — although never convicted — in her death.

spark a memory among people who knew the woman when she was alive.

“We hope the public will be able to push this to a conclusion. Somebody knows who this is,” said Sgt. Dan Almas. “There are many missing people whose cases aren’t solved.

But because so much effort has been made to identify this person, it is surprising it has taken this long.”

Jane Doe remains one of B.C.’s most mysterious missing-person files. The task force believes it has exhausted every effort to identify her through missing-person reports and is now hoping the composite will generate new tips from the public to crack open this old case.

Information about Jane Doe’s file has been

Jane Doe’s case received substantial media attention throughout the serial killer’s yearlong trial, which ended in 2007 with his conviction for six other murders.

It was the Crown’s theory that Pickton regularly drove to Mission — where Jane Doe was found — to get rid of body parts that were too big to take to a Vancouver rendering plant where he disposed of pig innards. Jane Doe’s skull was crucial evidence to support this theory.

The composite sketch was completed in 2008 by an FBI artist, but couldn’t be released publicly until after Pickton had completed all his court appeals. (The Supreme Court of Canada rejected Pickton’s final appeal last summer.)

It took police more than a decade to create such a detailed composite because they

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had very little to work with: All that was ever found of Jane Doe’s face was the skeletonized upper right half of her head. Her skull had been crudely cut in two with a reciprocating saw. The left side has never been located. The lower jaw is also missing.

Desperate, the task force sent the partial skull to the Ottawa-based National Research Council in 2006 to capitalize on the most advance scanning technology police could locate in North America. A high-resolution, three-dimensional digital image of the skull was created.

Then a top forensic artist with the FBI used the 3-D computer image to create the composite — as best he could given the limited information forensic scientists could conclude about Jane Doe: she was Caucasian and between 20 and 40 years old.

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hy is it so hard to call a lie a lie?

International Cooperation Minister Bev Oda is surrounded by synonyms. She “misled Parliament,” she “failed to be truthful.”

Oh come on! She lied!

Oda told a House of Commons committee in December that she didn’t know who had altered a document with the single word “not.” This was significant, as it was the difference between Christian aid group KAIROS being approved or denied for $7 million in funds.

Oda has since admitted that the hand-scrawled “not” was inserted at her order.

A handful of editorials and columns have used the word “lie” to describe Oda’s act.

Many more have employed weasel words, probably because they are terrified of being sued.

Humans usually have a fairly good handle on what is and isn’t a lie. I know my parents were particularly good at spotting lies with their cutting questions. There was seldom a way to wriggle out of “Did you hit your brother?” for example.

And when I was caught lying (“No, he hit himself/I wasn’t here/It was aliens!”) I was usually yelled at, usually punished.

We all know that many politicians lie.

“I am not a crook.”

“I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”

MATTHEW CLAXTON

the painful truth “We found the weapons of mass destruction.”

Locally, we’ve dealt with Fast Ferries that were “a good value” and an HST deal that “wasn’t on the radar.”

Politicians lie for the same reasons that I lied as a kid. They don’t want to get into trouble.

They don’t want to fess up to doing something stupid. They convince themselves that it’s not really a lie, it’s just, you know, about context.

They don’t get called out on it as much as your average grade schooler because they have lawyers. Expensive ones, really good ones, who will haul people into court and argue what the meaning of the word “is” is without a hint of shame.

Maybe we should equip fiveyear-olds with lawyers.

“Matthew, did you hit your brother?”

“Ah, Mrs. Claxton, I’m Mr. Smythe, and I’ll be acting as your son’s counsel in this matter. Now, as far as the alleged assault, if you can provide forensic or video evidence to back up the claims of the eyewitness? No? Well, the witness

is of course very unreliable; I’m sure you recall the ‘custard incident’ last week . . .”

I’m sure Oda will have some hair-splitting explanation to offer to her actions, which, let’s remember, were to say one thing and then admit that the exact opposite was true.

But there is no explanation.

Oda put herself forward to the voters of her riding, and a majority of them put their trust in her to take up a powerful and sensitive job. She was then entrusted a position of even greater power and importance by her boss, Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Her job impacts Canadian citizens through the taxes we pay, and through the reputation that this country has around the world. Her choices affect the fate of thousands of people who may or may not get aid, at her discretion. With the stroke of a pen – with a “not” – she can change lives forever.

Oda is not a five-year-old. She is a government minister, and should have known she would be held to a higher standard.

In general, too many politicians still need to learn the lesson that parents try to instill in their children: it’s better to just tell the truth and deal with the consequences.

Like, say, resigning from cabinet.

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he Golden Ears Bridge is not meeting expectations.

That’s probably not much of a surprise to those who use the crossing, often finding themselves all alone above the Fraser River.

It’s also probably no surprise to those who avoid the tolls by taking a longer route around. They are, after all, the ones who are causing the un-met expectations.

Ridership estimates from 2004 set first-year traffic over the bridge at nearly 30,000 vehicles per day between Maple Ridge and Langley. And indeed, by fall of 2009, traffic came close to within a thousand trips of that mark. But that’s been about it. The numbers stalled there.

While that may be good news for those who find the drive between the North and South Fraser communities free of traffic competition much of the time, it’s not great news for those who have to pay the bills – the bills beyond the toll charges, that is.

TransLink officials rightly point out that the world has changed since they decided to build the bridge. The global financial upheaval continues to take a toll on the economy, and it appears commuters aren’t as eager to pay bridge tolls as expected. TransLink is also probably correct in suggesting that, as the economy resurfaces, bridge use will rise, resulting in more toll money and less burden on taxpayers who currently make up the difference in bridge payments.

Suggestions that tolling of the Port Mann Bridge in future will increase the fortunes of the Golden Ears Bridge are a bit disturbing, however. It seems somehow wrong to drive more traffic our way only by increasing their costs.

TransLink doesn’t seem to understand “carrots and sticks” – only sticks – which may be OK for the proverbial mule, but people deserve better.

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Stronger gun control can prevent tragedies Editor, the Times:

In response to the article ‘Severe mental disorder clears man of murder’ (Times, Feb. 15), as a rural psychiatrist working in Prince George, I’ve been involved in situations where the gun registry has been used to remove guns from individuals who might present a risk to themselves or others because they were suicidal, mentally ill or unstable.

However, despite the controversy about the gun registry, there has been little to no education of the public about what they can do when they suspect that someone is unstable and might have a gun.

Perhaps with more education, this tragedy could have been prevented. Stricter gun regulations have, among other safety measures, put in place a clear mechanism to remove guns from people who become mentally ill. It is difficult to measure prevention but we do know that since stricter controls on firearms were introduced, there has been a decline of over 400 gun deaths annually.

Studies have shown that access to firearms not only increases the risk of suicide, but also of homicide, unintentional injuries and deaths.

Rates of suicide and domestic violence with firearms are much higher in rural Canada than in urban centres. With stronger controls on firearms

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we have seen these rates decline. While the screening and licensing of applicants makes it harder for dangerous people to get access to firearms, registration makes people accountable for the guns they own and helps people like me and the police prevent gun death.

The majority of gun owners are licensed and have registered their guns and respect safe storage regulations, thus contributing to a safer society. Although it may be a small inconvenience for hunters, farmers and gun owners to register their firearms once to their name, it helps people like me and the police prevent these tragedies.

Barbara Kane, MD Prince George, B.C.

Not warming up to the city’s Heat deal Editor, the Times:

Reading the paper, I was able to pick up a rather interesting comment from our city manager. He said while Heat attendance is low this year (great surprise!) sponsorship has been high, but would not provide details. Interesting.

But even more strange is the statement that he went

on to make. According to him, the Heat are a private business and thus information exchanged between the two organizations (Heat and the City) will remain confidential.

The Heat are a private business, how? They receive an annual subsidy from this city’s taxpayers, their bottom line has been guaranteed by this city’s taxpayers, and they play in a city taxpayer built arena. The Heat’s employees (players) relax in a taxpayer provided hot tub before or after the game.

Then there was a gem from a councillor/environmental activist. She opined the mayor and council wages have to be increased as much to be able to attract good competent people. Hope so. So far I have not seen any evidence in Abbotsford council that money could attract good competent people. Quite the opposite. Then you go forward a few days and hear from our mayor that council has adopted a new policy requiring one per cent be allotted to public art for any public project.

A public piece of art is already up at McCallum interchange, costing $64,000. According to our mayor, European cities have

these art pieces in public space and they attract visitors.

Just to let you know in case you don’t follow news, most of Europe is struggling with huge debt and many of them are going bankrupt.

Martin Jask Abbotsford

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For some weeks now we have seen uprisings in several countries, which started with Egypt, and which graphically shows what can happen to governments which consistently ignored what its citizens wanted and needed while the country’s resources were used elsewhere for private gain.

A question citizens might ask their government representatives: why do you treat us – your employer – in this way, and expect to keep your job? Would you expect such behaviour to be acceptable if you worked for any other corporation which paid your salaries and benefits?

In that example, would you be able to give yourself pay raises, extra benefits, expense accounts, etc. without even advising your employer of the details, while just repeating the same reports over and over to explain rising costs?

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Share Lee’s passion for this frozen tundra through her photos and storytelling on Wednesday, Feb. 23 from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Mission Library, 33247 Second Avenue. Call the library at 604-826-6610 for more.

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Practise your English and make new friends on Wednesday, Feb. 23 from 10:15 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Mission Library, 33247 Second Ave. Everyone is welcome. Call 604-826-6610.

Knitting club

Join us on Wednesday, Feb. 23 from noon to 1:30 p.m. for knitting, conversation and fun at Mission Library, 33247 Second Ave. For more, call 604-826-6610.

Family fun night

Feeling bored? Nothing to do? Mission Library, 33247 Second Ave., has games, crafts, and activities for the whole family to enjoy together on Thursday, Feb. 24 from 6:45 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. For more call the library at 604-826-6610.

Tai Chi classes

Tadeusz Kuczynski will teach four sessions of Tai Chi at

The Reach, starting Thursday, Feb. 24 and running until March 17 at 8 p.m. For more details call 604-850-3864.

Celebrating 50 years

Abbotsford Canadian Reformed Church celebrates its 50th anniversary on Thursday, Feb. 24 at the church (corner of King and McKenzie roads) at 7:30 p.m.

Come for coffee and fellowship following the program.

Contact Ron at rcdekker1@ shaw.ca or phone 604-8261060 for details.

Baby time

An interactive storytime with books, songs, rhymes and more. Baby Time is held at Mission Library, 33247 Second Avenue, from 10:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 25. Call 604-826-6610.

Hominum meets

The Hominum Fraser Valley Chapter is a support and discussion group to help gay, bi-sexual and questioning men. The next meeting is

Friday, Feb. 25 at 7:30 p.m.

For information call Art at 604-462-9813 or Don at 604329-9760.

Book sale

Friends of the Abbotsford Libraries Annual Book Sale will have great deals on used adult’s and children’s materials. Preview is Friday, Feb. 25 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. ($5 entrance fee). The sale is Saturday, Feb. 26 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 27 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Clearbrook Library (32320 George Ferguson Way). Call 604-859-7814 ext. 232.

African delight

Share African experiences and passion at a unique dessert evening, Saturday, Feb. 26 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Ross Road Community Church Gym, 3160 Ross Rd., Abbotsford. African music by Shirika, desserts and a silent auction.

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“The suspects missed their target, but their intentions were clear” SHOOTING, from page A1 Duhres that dates back to 1995 when he was arrested with Balraj Duhre and Bindy Johal after an attack on two men in an Abbotsford bar.

The resident said the house that was likely the real target and the home that got shot are next to one another.

The intended house has security cameras installed around the entire building.

He heard the gunfire ring out around 1:40 a.m. on Sunday.

“I was sleeping. I heard three to four

shots go off quick and then another four or five go.”

Const. Ian MacDonald said the criminals definitely hit the wrong home, but fortunately no one in the residence was injured.

“The suspects missed their target, but their intentions were clear,” said MacDonald, saying 10 shots were fired through a window into the house.

Investigators suspect the shots were actually meant for a man with connections to the Duhre group living on Hope Road. “[ We] believe it’s an attempt to

eliminate the competition,” said MacDonald.

“It is an illustration of the volatility that presently exists between the Duhre Group, and the opposition that has formed to challenge it for control of the drug trade in Abbotsford and elsewhere.”

The Duhre Group – headed by brothers Sandip, Balraj, and Paul Duhre – originated in South Vancouver and was tied to murdered gangster Bindy Johal.

The APD gang suppression unit has had a conversation with the intended target but has not gotten much coop-

eration.

“You kind of get the usual response, ‘I don’t have any idea what’s going on’,” said MacDonald.

It’s not the first time a house has been rented out to drug dealers in the rural area, noted the resident.

Criminals rent homes on rural properties that are only supposed to house farm workers.

The city should be checking the housing and informing police if it’s occupied by someone who shouldn’t be there he said.

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Lions tamed

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he Yale Lions appeared to be on a roll in the first two games of the B.C. High School Boys Triple-A Basketball Fraser Valley East playoffs.

Looking like the provincial championship team from a year ago, the Lions preyed on the opposition to open their post-season, downing crosstown rivals MEI 106-70 and Brookswood Secondary by a score of 63-48.

But the path of least resistance to the Fraser Valley championships hit a rough patch Saturday night, as the Lions went up against a determined Walnut Grove Gators team in the Valley East finals at Columbia Bible College.

In the end, sparked by a fierce defensive effort that smothered Yale’s premium offensive weapon Nakai Luyken, the Gators tamed the Lions by a score of 74-54.

Despite the loss, the Lions still advance to the Fraser

Valley’s as the No. 9 seed, but losing now is out of the question.

The next playoff round is a single-game elimination, although the Lions seem to have gotten a favourable draw.

On the list of opponents the Yale’s hoopsters must devour are the Blue Devils from Dr. Charles Best Secondary in Coquitlam.

The Blue Devils go into the tournament as the No. 24 seed, finishing the regular season with a record of 6-4.

Four other Abbotsford high schools managed to advance to the Fraser Valleys as well.

Abbotsford Collegiate, MEI, Robert Bateman and W.J. Mouat will all vye for a spot in the provincial championship tournament.

The W.J. Mouat Hawks soundly defeated Brookswood 77-63, while Robert Bateman fell to Maple Ridge Secondary 57-53.

MEI also advanced to the next round with an 80-65 win over Abbotsford Collegiate.

The Fraser Valley championships begin Friday.

The top eight teams will advance to the B.C. championships, which begin March 15 at the Langley Events Centre.

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Nakai Luyken of the Yale Lions senior boy’s basketball team gets double teamed by members of the Walnut Grove Gators in Saturday’s Fraser Valley East playoff final. The Lions lost 74-54.

he B.C. High School Girls Triple-A Basketball Fraser Valley championships are right around the corner and the W.J. Mouat Hawks are circling in search of a provincial title.

Ranked No. 1 in the province, the Hawks had to go through a regional playoff match last night against No. 16-ranked Walnut Grove before the Fraser Valley tournament tips off from W.J. Mouat beginning Thursday.

Scores from last night’s game between the Hawks and Gators were not available before the Times’ afternoon deadline.

The Hawks go into the tournament as the heavy favourites to not only advance to the B.C. tournament, but perhaps as the team of choice to win the championship.

The other Abbotsford entry in the upcoming Fraser Valley’s is the Yale Lions.

The Lions girl’s basketball program has been on the uprise for the past couple of years, in spite of the tremendous accolades the boy’s program receives for its success.

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Oklahoma City Barons forward Brad Moran of Abbotsford takes a faceoff against Heat captain Quintin Laing on Saturday.

laying for the first time as a professional in his home town of Abbotsford, Brad Moran of the Oklahoma City Barons put on a show Saturday night that his friends and family in attendance will never forget.

Moran scored once and was all over the ice as his Barons upended the Abbotsford Heat 3-2 in overtime.

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“It was a lot of fun,” said Moran of playing in front of his friends and family at home.

“I was looking forward [to it] and I think it’s exciting to have hockey here.”

Moran’s goal late in the first period, a wrist shot that beat Leland Irving stickside, cut the Heat’s 2-0 lead in half, sparking the comeback for the Barons.

Moran’s performance Saturday gave a glimpse into just how much of a good time the veteran forward is having back in North America after spending the

last two seasons in the Swedish Elite League.

“It’s a lot of fun. I missed the team atmosphere,” he said.

At his age, another shot at the NHL is unlikely.

Moran suited up for three games with the Vancouver Canucks during the 20062007 season, as well as five total games with the Columbus Blue Jackets.

“If it happens it happens,” he said.

“It’s not on the top of my mind. I know why I’m here. It’s to help this team right now and help the young guys. If they need me, I’m there, if not that’s OK.”

A22 ❘ SPORTS ❘ TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2011 THE TIMES

Cascades earn playoff berth

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hen wins were needed the most, the UFV Cascades men’s basketball team came through, and its reward is a trip to the CIS West playoffs.

The Cascades swept a two-game series against the Brandon University Bobcats this weekend at the Envision Athletic Centre by scores of 75-68 and 102-67, catapulting them from a ninth place

team on the outside looking in to the seventh seed in the CIS West standings.

Coming into the weekend, the Bobcats carried a record of 4-18.

Despite the fact the Cascades dominated the second worst team in the conference to earn a post-season berth, head coach Barnaby Craddock was pleased with the way his guys played in arguably the two most pressure-packed games of the season.

“The guys should be happy with their performance over the weekend, I thought we played well as a group,” said Craddock.

“The guys are playing good basketball right now and playoffs is a whole new season.”

The Cascades, minus Jasper Moedt

and Kyle Grewal, the two starting posts out due to injury, will now take on Trinity Western University in a battle of Fraser Valley combatants.

The Spartans claimed second in the conference this season with a record of 21-3, including a pair of decisive wins over the Cascades by scores of 92-73 and 114-89.

“We struggled at Trinity earlier this year,” said the coach.

“They have a strong team this year, and that’s what happens when you finish seventh. You’re the underdog and that’s fine with us, we’re in the playoffs and we’ll come out swinging . . . see if we can’t do something special.”

Game 1 of the best-of-three series goes Thursday, beginning at 7 p.m. from Langley.

Another NHLer heading our way?

The major shakeup in Calgary could mean another veteran NHLer will make his way down to the Abbotsford Heat as early as Tuesday morning.

The Calgary Flames put Niklas Hagman on waivers Monday morning, and he could be reassigned to Abbotsford if not picked up by another NHL team.

Hagman has one more year on his contract after this season, and is slated to make $3 million.

Hagman, who was part of the blockbuster trade between the Flames and Toronto Maple Leafs last season that sent Dion Phaneuf to the Big Smoke, has nine goals and 15 assists in 57 games with Calgary this season.

At age 31, he could become the second NHLer to be reassigned to the Heat in less than a month.

The Flames sent Ales Kotalik to the minors on Jan. 28, one day after he was placed on waivers due to a hefty salary and lack of offensive contributions.

The Heat don’t play again until Friday, when they take on the Providence Bruins at the Abbotsford Entertainment and Sports Centre.

For more, check out www.abbotsfordtimes.com.

– CAM TUCKER/TIMES

Clay shines at Winter Games Zachary Clay recently competed for Team B.C. at the Canada Winter Games in Halifax last week, coming away with excellent results.

In his first Winter Games, the 15-year-old from Twisters Gymnastics in Abbotsford made it to the finals in five events, including floor, pommels, parallel bars, high bar and vault.

Clay will now move on to compete with the National Team at Elite Canada on March 18 and 19.

Richard Ikeda, Clay’s coach, will attend Elite Canada with the local gymnastics star.

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23. Male cat 24. Past tense of 60 across 26. Humans as a group 29. Introduces a further negative 30. Area of conflict 34. A licensed accountant 35. Deep distress or misery 36. A winglike structure 37. Having defined limits 43. A brother or sister 44. A small shiny ornamental disk 45. True firs 47. No. Am. republic (abbr.)

48. Bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich 49. Most guileful 52. Casual trousers 55. Abba ____, Israeli politician 56. Papier-_____, art material 58. Am. costume designer Edith 60. Stand up 61. Operatic songs 62. Talk incessantly 63. Shock treatment 64. Form a sum 65. Norweigan currency (abbr.)

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50. Foot-shaped shoe form 51. Scarlett’s home 52. Genus alosa 53. New Jersey university 54. Paper bag 55. Before 57. Castilian knight El ___ 59. Denmark

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RENTALS 6505

Apartments & Condos

2 BR 1150SqFt, fresh renovated, one level basement, full kitchen & bathroom, enclosed garage available, N/S, 604-721-5272

6508

Apt/Condos

1 BR condo, central Abby recent upgrades. Avail immediately. ns, np, 604-202-6631 2 BR Newer, maple cabs, insuite wd, cov’d patio, 2 ug prkg, fp, Abbts. $1075, 604-807-8665

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2441 Countess St 1 Bedroom from $620

6508

Apt/Condos

2 BDRM APT FOR RENT in Langley

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Please call 604-534-9499 1 BR $650. 2 BR $745 Mission. carpet, coin wd, avail now, Bob 604-302-8676 or 604-826-5147

ABBY GLEN APARTMENTS 2959 Tims St. Reno’d 1 & 2 br suite avail, Call 778-880-0920 MISSION 2 bdrm 7696 Grand St., reno’d. 2nd flr, renovated, on site Mgr. Avail now $750 604-826-3665 or 778-552-1808

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Houses - Rent

1 Bdrm. & Den

2 BR, above grnd bsmt ste, own entry & prkg, high ceilings, shed $650 Yarrow. Now 604-556-4089

2 Bedroom

3 BR +den, Totally Reno’d House & Yard, Gardeners Delight! Beautiful Views, near shops, hwy & schools, avail now.. ns, $1650, 32864 10 Ave, Mission. Call 1-604-657-0229 for viewing.

from 650 $

starting at $700 totally reno’d $790

604.850.5375 Seniors Incentive UP TO

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3 BR, wd, Matsqui nr Riverside & Harris, $1200, on farm, ns, np, avail now, 604-556-1180 5 BR, 3 bath family home, Mission, 3 br up, 2 br down, close to school, fenced yard, tree fort, ns. $1550. 604-820-7833, 813-3908 6 BR house, 2 full baths, Clearbrook. Feb 20th, Rent neg.

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IN THE matter of the warehousemans lien act Reliable Auto Towing has a claim against the following person(s) vehicle(s): Eric Williams/Westrock Financial Ltd. 1G2AJ55F277305498 2007 Pontiac G5 Tracy Venables WVWCA0155JK022540 1988 VW Golf Gia Hoang JHMBB2266NC801763 1987 Honda Prelude Paul Lesko 2BG209168u215065 2002 Yamaha R6 Gregory Eleming/The TorontoDominion Bank 1G1AJ12F757534581 2005 Chev. Cobalt Paul Verchere 2GTDG15Z1H4504775 1987 GMC Duravan Mick Murphy 2GCFK24H5J1241719 1988 Chev 2500 Hanaro Motors Inc. 2C3AD36591H513355 2001 Chrysler Concord Treen Luth WVWCE83A1SE024007 1995 VW Passat Vehicles to be sold on the 30th day of February, 2011.

604-826-8621

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23MAY65 and/or RELATED FAMILY MEMBERS A Final Order was granted in the Ontario Court of Justice in Timmins, ON on December 15, 2010.

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AUTOMOTIVE 9105

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1990 Mercedes 560 SEL AirCared, fully loaded, leather, heated seats, pw, pl, alarm, pwr sunroof, pwr seats, CD, new tires & brakes, 228,000 km, runs well. $1800 obo. 604.316.1018 2004 Ford F350 Lariat Supercrew, turbo diesel, loaded, leather, sunroof, 260,000 km., runs great. $13,500. 604.316.1018 or 604.793.3010.

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Domestic

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Scrap Car Removal

Houses - Rent

LANGLEY, Walnut Grove. Beautiful view! Executive home on shared acreage, upper 2 floors.

New appl. Private w/d, f/p, covered veranda + sundeck, vaulted ceilings. Ns/np. $2,000/mo incl hydro. Immed. 604-882-2505

Escort Services

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Rooms

ABBOTSFORD ROOMS $450.

604-854-1000

6602

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9172

Utility Trailers

2010 5’ x 8’ Carry-On Cargo trailer used 1 time $1000. Ph 604-703-0217

9173

Vans

2008 HONDA Odyssey EX, 7 pass, loaded, 25K, $21,900 firm D9921 toll free 1-877-855-6522

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1 BR bsmt, $650, 2br upper $850, both +utils, share wd, central Abby, ns, np, 778-990-0336 1 BR+ den, Abby, Sandpiper, ns np, no laundry, $650 incl util & internet 604-853-3013/ 724-0440 1BDRM SUITE, Mission, Brand new, bright, own W/D, NS, $800 utils incl, avail now, 604-826-8674 2 BR Bsmt, Abbts, close to Hwy 1 & McCallum Rd. $750 incl elec & gas, ns now/Mar 1, 604-319-8799 2 BR in triplex, corner unit, insuite wd, $800 incls heat/light, ns np Cedar/Egglestone, 604-556-1180 ABBY 2 BR bsmt , $700 util incl & ldry, 2974Townline Rd small pet ok, 778-241-1783 ..604-556-8834 ABBY 2 br ste on Marshal Rd, nr UFV & hospital, np, ns, util incl. $8750 Avail now ! 604-870-0331 ABBY, CLEARBROOK 2 br ste, ns, np, ref’s required. $675 per mth. Max 2 Immed 604-850-2673 MISSION 1BR bsmt suite, jet tub, suit 1 only, fp, wd, $650 incl gas/ hydro Before 4pm, 604-715-5661

MISSION 4BR upper level, reno, share wd, big yard, ns, $1200+60 %utils immed. pet? 778-378-7160 MISSION, NEWLY renovated, spacious grnd lvl 2 Br with rec rm, own laundry, d/w, ns np $1250 incl utils & satelite. 778-997-1772 MISSION UPPER flr, 3 BR, all appls, own W/D, A/C, gas f/p, huge yard. Close to schools, shops. Pet negot. Avail now. $1200 + 1/2 utls. 604-765-3340

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THE SCRAPPER

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CASH FOR ALL VEHICLES

Office/Retail Rent

OFFICE SPACE for rent, 1500sf, $2000/mo in high traffic area same bldg. as Greek Island Restuarant on 2686 Langdon St. 604-850-1613 or 604-819-2045

Has your vehicle reached the end of its useful life?

LIFTED DODGE 3500, 6' BDS lift, 37'Toyo tires, nerf bars, 6' exhaust, Fully loaded Laramie.Never Driven Off Road.604-290-1629

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Sport Utilities/ 4x4’s/Trucks

2006 NISSAN Titan SE, king cab 4x4, full load, Leer canopy $21,500 obo. 604-853-5280

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HOME SERVICES 8055

Cleaning

EXPERIENCED HOMEMAKER Professional Cleaning Lady avail, Reas Rates, 604-308-1441 LINDA’S CLEANING service provides quality work for an affordable price. 604-852-0104

8080

Electrical

YOUR ELECTRICIAN $29 service call. Insured. Lic # 89402. Fast same day service guaranteed. We love small jobs! 604-568-1899

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Flooring/ Refinishing

Century Hardwood Floors ★Hardwood flr refinishing ★Repairs ★ Staining ★ Free Estimate. Contact 604-376-7224

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Lawn & Garden

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Painting/ Wallpaper

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Call Rob at Pride Painting 604-819-5693 Interior and Exterior Painting

8220

Plumbing

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FEBRUARY WEDNESDAY

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of your total prescription price in Superbucks™ rewards!

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Ask our pharmacist for details!

This offer available at our pharmacies in British Columbia only.

Superbucks™ rewards are provided by host supermarket to redeem for merchandise in-store excluding prescriptions, tobacco, alcohol, lottery tickets and any other products which are provincially regulated.

Redemption is also excluded at all third party operations (post office, drycleaners, gas bar, etc.). Superbucks™ rewards are issued only for individual customer in-store prescription purchases (excludes healthcare and other facilities). 4% Superbucks™ rewards are calculated as 4% of the total value of the prescription, with a minimum value of $1.00 and up to a maximum value of $99.99 per coupon.

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