Chilliwack Times - May 11th 2010

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An example of what two plaques stolen from Garrison Crossing’s Legacy Walk look like.

Pointless theft of plaques

BY TYLER OLSEN tolsen@chilliwacktimes.com

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BY TYLER OLSEN tolsen@chillliwacktimes.com

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ore plaques have been stolen near the former CFB Chilliwack but this time the victims aren’t the only one’s getting ripped off.

Thieves stole two of 17 plaques from Garrison Crossing’s Legacy Walk sometime between April 30 and May 4. The walk commemorates the history of the former CFB Chilliwack, and the theft of the plaques came just days after a valuable plaque at Sapper’s Cenotaph Park was stolen.

The irony of the latest theft is that while the plaques will cost the Canada Lands Company upwards of $4,000 to replace them, their combined scrap value is less than $5.

That fact is not lost on Canada Lands Company’s incensed director of planning and land development, Randy Fasan. Fasan noticed See PLAQUES, Page 3

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Ron Johnson provides some shopping music for visitors to the garage sale he and Eva Franta held in Sardis on Saturday as part of the annual Citywide Garage Sale. More than 260 garage sales were held all over Chilliwack.

irefighters were kept busy over the weekend responding to two separate fires started by youths.

A 12-year-old boy suffered burns to his hands, and a shed was damaged after a fire erupted Friday evening in an outbuilding on Tupper Street.

“The cause of the fire has been determined to be a 12-year-old male playing with matches and gasoline causing a fire in the garage which spread into the contents of the building,” assistant fire chief Jeff Ullyot said in a press release. Fire also spread to the building’s roof.

On Sunday morning, firefighters were called to the 46000 block of Second Avenue, where they found a burning mattress and boxspring on a patio deck.

Ullyot said the fire likely started in a rear bedroom, where a five-yearold boy was playing with a butane lighter while the adults slept. A fire alarm woke the other tenants.

Damage to the building was minimal, but one occupant was treated for minor smoke inhalation while the hands of two adults were burned when they removed the mattress from the home.

Chilliwack fire prevention officer See BURNS, Page 7

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Briefly Guilty of arson and assault A Chilliwack man was found guilty Friday of arson and assault causing bodily harm in connection to a house fire last year on Bernard Avenue.

Supreme Court Justice Brian Joyce found that Kevin M. Isaac set the fire last May 8 after assaulting a woman in the home. “I am satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Isaac lit the fire in the closet,” said Joyce.

Joyce said the fire was set as a misguided attempt at getting back with the woman, and that Isaac likely knew a downstairs suite was occupied. The fire caused substantial damage to the top floor of the home, along with light smoke and water damage to the main floor.

Isaac had admitted to assaulting the woman, but disagreed that he had caused “bodily harm.”

Joyce, though, said: “The injury caused by the assault was more than . . . transient in nature.”

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Chilliwack resident Darrin Pollard was convicted of second degree murder in the stabbing death of his common-law wife, Cheryl Lynn Glover. Pollard stabbed Glover to death in their Chilliwack townhouse after a night of drinking and watching the slasher movie I Know What You Did Last Summer. The couple were characterized as heavy drinkers.

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PLAQUES, from page 1 the plaques were missing last Tuesday. The incident is just the latest in a rash of wire and metal thefts around the development.

Garrison Crossing already employs security guards to monitor the site, but that hasn’t stopped people from ripping wires out of lamp posts and metal covers from sprinklers.

“Beyond the security measures that we’ve already taken, there’s really nothing else that we can do,” Fasan told the Times.

“. . . catch the businesses that are actually paying money for this contraband.”

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Clarence Wiens almost lost his rabbit ears as he led the little ones out in the 1K kids fun run at Sunday’s Envision Run for Mom.

Big bucks raised at Run

BY PAUL J. HENDERSON phenderson@chilliwacktimes.com

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undreds of runners hit the pavement and the Rotary Trail on Sunday, raising more than $20,000 at the 12th annual Envision Run for Mom. There were more than 700 participants in the eight-kilometre road race, five-kilometre walk and one-kilometre kids’ fun run.

The annual Mother’s Day celebration event started and finished in the parking lot at the University of the Fraser Valley’s Trades and Technology Centre.

The first place finisher in the sanctioned eight-kilometre race was Rob Lang of Chilliwack in a time of 30 minutes and 25 seconds. Ron Wichmann of

Rob Lang takes 8 km race, but real winner is Chilliwack General Hospital Chilliwack came in 34 seconds behind him and Jerry Kroll, also of Chilliwack, finished another 45 seconds later.

The top female finisher was Chilliwack teenager Kristy Ricard in a time of 36:56. Marina Glasgow of Abbotsford (a CGH employee) was the second female in at 35:59 and Susan Northey of Chilliwack was the third female in at 36:50.

Organizers thanked the hundreds who attended the successful event, particularly as the Run for Mom fell on the same day this year as the popular Vancouver Sun Run, this year attended by over 50,000 people.

The Run for Mom is a fundraiser for the Fraser Valley Health Care Foundation in Chilliwack and supporting programs for women and children at Chilliwack General Hospital.

Specifically, this year’s proceeds will go towards the purchase of a non-invasive jaundice meter and a glidescope video laryngoscope.

The jaundice meter allows medical staff to obtain data from newborns without having to do an invasive blood test. The glidescope provides a realtime view of airways, which enables quick intubation.

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As for the plaques, Fasan said: “We thought they were pretty secure. We’ll double check the ones that remain, but where there’s a will, there’s a way.”

While the thieves clearly don’t please Fasan, the scrap metal dealers who accept their stolen property seem to anger him most.

“They wouldn’t be doing this if there weren’t unscrupulous metal dealers who are taking obviously stolen materials,” said Fasan. “You get some character walking in with a bundle of wire, it’s not rocket science to figure out what this person’s been up to.

“The only way to put these people out of business, and the police have known this for a long time, is to catch the businesses that are actually paying money for this contraband.”

Fasan said he hopes the public will help put the metal thieves out of business by contacting police.

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BY PAUL J. HENDERSON phenderson@chilliwacktimes.com

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he 2009 flood in Greendale that forced dozens of families from their homes was caused by a unique combination of weather events that led to numerous failings in the drainage system, according to the consultant’s report posted on the city’s website Friday.

“There is no single part of the system that failed; nor single cause to the problem,” the Urban Systems report said of the Greendale drainage systems.

In January 2009, dozens of homes in Greendale had water running through living rooms, and many more were inundated with water in basements and crawlspaces. Drainage systems throughout the city were operating at peak capacity and beyond.

Two months after the flood, city council commissioned Urban Systems to answer four key questions: what caused the flood; how significant was the rainstorm?; what part of the drainage system failed?; and what changes should be made to reduce the chance of such a flood happening again?

The cause, as concluded in the report, is no different from what was reported more than a year ago. The recipe for the 2009 flood: Sudden above-zero temperatures greeted by back-toback record-breaking days of rain landing on nearly two feet of snow that sat upon ground frozen by unusually cold temperatures in December. “[A] unique sequence of climatic conditions occurred directly within the community itself,

and was not attributed to the overtopping of an external watercourse,” the report said.

As for the significance of the rainstorm, the consultants concluded this was “not easily quantified,” because it was so unusual.

The drainage system in the community of Greendale did not have the capacity to deal with the heavy run-off and rains over those few days in January, according to the report.

To help deal with future floods, the consultants recommend a number of options for the city to consider. Of first importance is upgrading the Collinson pump station followed by upgrades to the McGillivray pump station. The price tag for these upgrades is $4.9 million.

Other recommendations include: $8.8 million to replace 71 culverts in the area; and $2.6 million for two new drainage channels.

Coun. Ken Huttema, chair of the rural issues advisory committee that presented the report to Greendale residents on April 29, said the report is back in the hands of staff to consider what to recommend to council.

No funds for any work have been budgeted for this year so any expense would have to be considered carefully, he said.

The city can do some work in terms of more regular ditch cleaning, but the major works recommended by the consultant come with hefty price tags.

“You spend upwards of $18 million in one area [to protect from a flood] that may not happen for 100 years to save a million and a half dollars,” Huttema said. “Is that cost effective?”

The estimated cost of property damage from the January 2009 flood was $1.5 million for all of Chilliwack, not just Greendale.

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hilliwack police busted a medium-sized grow operation on Murray Road Saturday.

Mounties searched the home after being tipped off about the theft of power. Inside they seized 922 mature pot plants and one 2 7 - y e a r- o l d C h i l l i w a c k woman.

“With this particular grow operation, it was clear the entire property was being used for the growing,” said Cpl. Lea-Anne Dunlop in a press release.

The woman was released on a promise-to-appear in court at a later date.

BY CORNELIA NAYLOR cnaylor@chilliwacktimes.com

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hildcare providers share a high and sometimes lonely destiny, but May is their month to shine.

It’s Child Care Month, and around the province, people who take care of kids are being celebrated May 20—Child Care Provider Appreciation Day. In Chilliwack, Child Care Resource and Referral (CCRR)—a Chilliwack Community Services program that brings together parents and licensed/registered childcare providers—will host an appreciation night for the roughly 120 childcare providers who work with them.

It’s an important bit of recognition for people who play a vital role in our society, according to CCRR coordinator Barb Presseau.

“It’s not a high-paying position, typically, and yet the future of our community is in their hands for many hours a week,” she said, Bringing childcare providers together is especially important because their work often keeps them isolated from colleagues.

Tanya Carlisle-Brown, who runs Country Cottage Family Childcare, says there’s no other job she’d rather have but adds it’s nice to get together with others who understand the ups and downs.

“Nobody else really knows your busy days and how draining it can be other than somebody else who does it,” she said.

Carlisle-Brown registered with CCRR when she started up her business five years ago, and she says the program is a lifeline to training, resources and support.

“I know it sounds corny,” she said, “but they feel like family.”

CCRR set up shop in Chilliwack 20 years ago with the goals of supporting childcare providers with training and resources, and improving the quality of care available to kids in the community.

Driving the program was a growing awareness of the importance of quality care in the early years for a child’s development and future, and for the wellbeing of families.

“Childcare providers have always known it,” said Presseau. “Now research is actually showing it.”

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Tanya Carlisle-Brown of Country Cottage Family Childcare collects a worm for her wormery while her daughter Olivia Brown, 2, and Noah Choi, 5, look on with the rest of the children in Carlisle-Brown’s care.

Besides connecting parents with licensed and registered childcare providers, CCRR also works to attract childcare providers who aren’t registered and licensed to get them on board.

“Our program’s main goal is to be supportive and to bring them to a best practice,” said Presseau.

For her, childcare in the early years needs to move beyond babysitting because children learn so much in the first six years of life.

“We want to make sure people know that the early years are vital to a child’s future and that means the future of our whole community,” she said.

That’s why this month CCRR is taking time out to recognize the childcare providers who hold that future in hands. ◗ For more information about CCRR call 604-7924267 or visit www.childcarechoices.ca.

mistaken address may have led two would-be home invaders to the wrong home Saturday.

Police say that two men broke into a home, on the 45300 block of McIntosh Drive, and pepper-sprayed the male occupant.

The man, however, was able to fight off the two suspects, who left without taking anything. In the struggle at the home, a glass table was broken and cut one of the suspects on the leg. Adding insult to injury, police say they arrested a 27-yearold Chilliwack man when he sought medical help at Chilliwack General Hospital.

The man is now facing charges of break and enter, and assault with a weapon.

Police are still searching for his colleague.

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BY PAUL J. HENDERSON phenderson@chilliwacktimes.com

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onsidered a heritage home of significance by some, the“Big House” on Sto:lo Nation property held terrible memories for others, according to the chair of the Coqualeetza Cultural Education Centre board.

The prominent house on Vedder Road was demolished on April 26 after years of physical neglect on top of decades of emotional torment for those who know what happened behind the walls.

The house was built in 1894 as the residence for the principal of the Coqualeetza residential school that was attended by First Nations from all over B.C. between 1886 and 1939. The Times reported last week that Leqamel band member Patricia Kelly’had proposed to buy the house, move it across the street and renovate the dilapidated structure.

But Coqualeetza board chair Ken Malloway said the building was in such bad shape that insurance was no longer even possible for the structure. He said the board spoke with elders, some of whom told him “they can burn it down as far as they care.”

Before she died, Malloway said his mother told him about her time as a student at the residential school at Coqualeetza.

“She was five-years-old when she went there and she couldn’t speak English, she could only speak Halq’amélyem,” he said.

“Every time she spoke her language she got the strap. And when she got the strap it was in the Big House. That’s where they went for punishment.

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Some were sad to see the “Big House” at Coqualeetza torn down, but many Sto:lo elders had bad memories of the house that was built for the residential school principal in 1894.

“That place doesn’t have any good memories for us.”

Malloway said there are even some fond memories among Sto:lo elders of residential schools, but that old house was not one of them.

“She never talked to me about residential school at Coqualeetza her whole life until maybe the last couple of years before she died she talked about it.

There was bad things that happened in that place,” he said. “There was children that died there and never ever made it home. They are buried in our cemeteries around here.

“I talked to my mother about it and she told me things that happened there that would just make your hair stand on end. By the time I grew up and talked to my mom, she couldn’t understand the language any more. She couldn’t speak it any more. It was beaten out of her. She

had no fond memories of that place.”

Malloway said the board considered Kelly’s proposal to pay $1 for the house and to move it and renovate it, but decided against the offer. He said he had never heard anything about a $100,000 offer that Kelly says she and her partner Lothar Drews offered Sto:lo Nation.

As for the heritage nature of the building, Malloway was dismissive.

“It’s not Stonehenge,” he said. “It’s an old house that belonged to the principal of the residential school. . . . It doesn’t hold the same kind of sentimental value to most of our people as you might be led to believe.”

Sto:lo Nation archeologist Dave Schaepe said the building was decrepit and had to be removed from the grounds.

He also said that “the heritage value has been preserved” and the building had become a liability.

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round 4,000 Chilliwack residents, workers and city officials took part in this year’s Move for Health Day Monday.

By mid-day Monday, 3,958 people had taken part locally in the provincewide event, which aims to get participants to exercise for at least 30 minutes.

Gordon Pederson, the city’s Move for Health co-ordinator, said he was happy with the turnout, which exceeded the city’s goal of 3,500 participants. Pederson and other city officials hit the road Friday at lunch to

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While matches, lighters and other firestarting tools should be kept out of reach of children, after the ages of seven or eight, “education has to kick in,” said Van Beest; the older a child gets, the greater his ability grows to find and use matches and lighters, if he or she so desires.

“The explanation has to be made that matches and lighters are tools, not toys,” said Van Beest.

“And parents must be vigilant in ensuring that fire setting materials are not in the reach of small children.”

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Don van Beest, who runs the department’s juvenile fire setter program, says he deals with anywhere between 12 to 30 youths each year.

Van Beest told the Times that his job is to first determine if an incident is the result of “fire setting” or “fire play.” (He had not yet spoken to the youths involved in this weekend’s fires).

Fire setting is a symptom of deeper problems, and in such cases, van Beest refers the youth to a professional counsellor. Fire play, on the other hand, “is an inappropriate exploration of fire,” said Van Beest.

In those cases, Van Beest puts on a fire education program for the youths and their

launch the event.

“We have made it our goal to try and get people more active in the community,” said Pederson.

The city worked with the YMCA, the school district, FVRD, and the operator of the Landing and Cheam Leisure Centres, among other groups, to get Chilliwack residents moving.

“The 30-minute number is the general figure you need to have your heart working at a capacity where you get a benefit of exercise,” said Pederson.

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rime goes back a long way.

Probably as far back as the first caveman who realized he could pummel his friend with a rock and steal his slice of mastodon steak.

Organized crime probably is a little younger. A week or so, maybe.

That’s when three cavemen banded together to beat up and rob anyone walking by their cave.

Human beings are inherently sociable, and a fraction of them are always willing to break the rules to get what they want. Combine those two traits, and you get criminal gangs.

What we think of as organized crime didn’t really get started until the medieval era, when smuggling became a big industry. They were probably smuggling wine or wool, not drugs or guns, but the principle is the same.

The other thing about ancient organized crime is that the scale could be vast.

The Vikings stole entire countries, for example.

It’s easy to see how this started.

Two frigid Norsemen, standing in a howling gale somewhere near Uppsala, wiping snotsicles off their moustaches.

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“Yeah, Leif?”

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“And we’re enormous, terrifying lunatics with massive swords. We could take all that stuff, and maybe get ourselves a couple of vacation homes farther south.”

“Good plan. I’ll build a ship shaped like a dragon, you round up 50 unemployed berserkers.”

The Vikings invaded and conquered parts of England, Scotland, Ireland, and France.

Sure, Vikings would take your stuff and kill you, maybe even take over your country. But they were up front about it.

Later, organized criminals hid in shadows.

In the late 1800s, a scheme known as the Black Hand became widespread among Italian gangs in the United States. The victim—usually a reasonably prosperous Italian immigrant—got a letter marked with the hand, and a threat: pay up, or else.

The thing about it that made the Black Hand so terrifying was that the gangs using the scheme backed up their threats. Favourite methods included shotgun blasts to the face

and blowing up whole buildings.

Many people believed the Black Hand was a single organization, but it was just a crude business plan used by many unconnected gangs.

The greatest organized criminals in history were undoubtedly the politicians of the 18th and 19th century British Empire.

No, I’m not kidding.

The official plan of the government and the East India Company was to get as much addictive opium as possible into China.

(This was known as free trade.) The Chinese Empire had made it illegal to sell opium since the 1700s, but that didn’t bother the British. They wanted to make money, period, so China was forced to open its doors to the world’s greatest drug dealers.

They fought two wars in the mid1800s to force China to bow to the pressure of the drug sellers. England was the world’s first narco-terrorist state.

Of course, the British and other westerners weren’t complete hypocrites. Opium was freely available in the west, too, including in children’s cough medication, until the early 20th century.

As for future organized crime, I predict black market head-swap operations and chop shops for our flying cars can’t be far away. ◗ Matthew Claxton is a reporter with the Langley Advance.

hile some critics have already taken potshots at the new drunk driving laws and a court challenge is being contemplated, we say kudos to the provincial government for tightening the rules.

The lives that have been damaged and, in some tragic cases, ended because someone got behind the wheel after drinking alcohol are too numerous to list. Families have lost loved ones killed by drunk drivers, and the relatives of impaired drivers have not been spared from the impacts.

The ripple effect of drunk driving hurts everyone involved.

The new rules have some pretty stiff penalties attached. Under the new rules, drivers who blow within a “warn” range between .05 and .08 will immediately be banned from driving for three days and be fined $200. A second instance will earn a seven-day ban and a $300 fine, and a third, a 30-day ban and $400 fine.

Drivers who blow over .08 or refuse to provide a breath sample at the roadside will immediately be banned from driving for 90 days and be hit with a $500 fine.

Their vehicles will be impounded for 90 days, and further, they could face criminal charges.

Add in administrative penalties, towing and impoundment costs, and the price of an ignition interlock device, and you end up with a big number: all told, one fail on a roadside screening device will cost the driver roughly $3,750—and the driver could still face criminal charges.

The president of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association has said drivers who are facing huge fines that they are unable to pay will be forced to drive illegally to get to work, and “then they’re committing more crime.”

We’ve heard some pretty dumb arguments over the years . . . and that’s definitely one of them.

Here’s our answer: don’t drink and drive; don’t even consider it, even if you can afford to pay $4,000.

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the matter and recognize that the economic benefit of tourism in this area far outweighs the bit of gravel your industry buddies will extract.

Help send a strong message if you believe the Chilliwack River is too valuable to have increased industrial pressure on it. Write a letter or sign the petition at www.stopthegravelpit.com.

Please Mr. Hawes, at least act like a mines minister.

Susan Federspiel Chilliwack River Valley

Enforcement a bigger issue Editor: Re: New playground equipment at Fairfield Park (Strathcona elementary) and the slow burn.

The weekend party boys/ girls burned down the previous equipment about a month ago. How very nice of our local officials to give them some more ($15$20,000 worth) to burn it down again.

Jeez, I wonder why the kids don’t obey the no loitering after dusk sign. Enforcement?

What a waste of taxpayers money—up in smoke.

Ed MacDonald Chilliwack

Trustee’s time is valuable Editor: Having never written in response to letters to the editor before I was moved to do so when I see John-Henry Harter under attack.

Sure, it is easy to say that he should continue to attend board meetings while turning over his stipend to the Chilliwack School Board but would anyone else even consider doing this? People seem to forget that he also has a family and other obligations.

His time is valuable just like everyone else’s. Perhaps the critics should run for trustee and offer to perform the job for free. What is good for the goose should be good for the gander.

D. Howden Chilliwack

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Many years ago, Alberta instituted a more draconian piece of legislation. If you were deemed to be drunk while driving, your vehicle

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Gaetz said the economic picture was very different at the time with the closure of CFB Chilliwack and two food processing plants.

While she did not want to speculate on the thought processes at the time, she added the council of the day said, “In whatever way you can aid development in our community, do it.”

Does this mean that it’s OK to do anything, even if it’s illegal and immoral?

Better think before you make such an absurd comment. Typical political response.

D. Saundry Chilliwack

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was immediately impounded for seven days and you could also end up being impounded in a local gaol for the same seven days.

The law was only in effect for a short time as too many judges, lawyers, some MLAs, and other dignitaries were finding themselves on the wrong side of the law.

Somehow the law was quickly repealed without a whimper. It just quietly disappeared off the books.

Could it be that the same fate may happen to this attempt being made by B.C.?

Bruce Davis Chilliwack

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Editor: The minister of state for mining, Randy Hawes, was quoted recently as saying that although he knows that the proposed gravel mine in the Chilliwack River Valley is in an area deemed as “environmentally sensitive,” he “is unable to do anything about it.”

My question is, isn’t he the head of the ministry?

Doesn’t he have the authority to put a stop on this proposal, at least until the FVRD and members of this community, and recreational visitors, have time to have their say?

His statements are about as muddy as the water from this pit about to ruin the Chilliwack River.

If Mr. Hawes is not in charge of his ministry, who is?

With all the other values that the Chilliwack Valley watershed offers five million visitors a year, isn’t it at least valid to consider these other economic and social benefits? The excuse that we need to follow a Mines Act that was created in 1971 just shows how idiotic and fossilized this government’s vision is—not to mention the inconsistencies.

In 2006, the Ministry of Sports, Arts, Culture and Recreation stopped all camping on the shores of Chilliwack River from the Vedder Bridge to Tamihi to help conserve habitat and water quality. Four years later, we are fighting to keep those same values in the forefront. If this proposal goes through, who cares about the impacts of a bit of camping and feces—a 50football-field-size gravel pit will overtake all in habitat degradation—not to mention the road impacts.

Come on Mr. Hawes, take on some responsibility in

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pril real estate in Chilliwack continued on a hot streak with 233 home sales compared to 188 in April 2009.

That number is also up from 205 in March, 180 in February and 122 in January.

Inventory remains strong as 548 new listings hit the market for a total of 1,694 active listings.

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The highest number of home sales last month occurred in the $350,000 to $400,000 range (34), followed closely by those in the $300,000 to $350,999 range (33).

There were 18 sales over the halfmillion dollar mark.

The median price of a single family detached home in Chilliwack as of May 1 was $369,900.

Despite a market that appears on the upswing, local realtor Stephen Mullock, who writes a blog on the

local market, points out that April’s numbers may be up, but they are still below the 10-year average. “[I]t is clear the Chilliwack real estate market still has a ways to go before we can say that it has fully recovered,” Mullock wrote.

The industry is also wary of new lending rules that kicked in last month, as well as the imminent HST. Executive members of the Chilliwack and District Real Estate Board (CADREB) took concerns of

local realtors to provincial and federal politicians recently.

CADREB president Kyle Hislop, government relations chair Mark Andersen and executive officer Steve Lerigny held meetings with MLAs Barry Penner and John Les on the effect of shelter taxes on the sale and affordability of homes, including the harmonized sales tax (HST) and the property transfer tax (PTT).

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The late game on Saturday was a 5-1 win for Chilliwack against Surrey.

Chilliwack rode a three-run first inning on triples from Mike Rogers and Payton Nerbas, an RBI single from Derek Riediger and walks to Blake Peeling and Enns.

They added a run in the second with back-to-back two-out hits from Bailey and Scott Fitzsimmons.

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Community Games night

Calling all teens, drop in to the Chilliwack Library May 13 from 5 to 8:30 p.m. and enjoy all the card and board games you can handle. Participants must be at least in Grade 7 to attend. No registration required. For details call Susan at 604-793-7238.

Presented by Chilliwack Community Services in partnership with the Chilliwack Library.

tickets for a summer raffle basket.

Animal fun

Conference on religion

The Chilliwack Branch of the BC SPCA hosts an animalthemed day of fun on May 15. The event, sponsored through the Science Diet Open House series, takes place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Chilliwack SPCA, 6797 Hopedale Rd. In addition to featuring pets looking for loving homes, visitors to the Chilliwack Open House are invited to tour the facility to learn more about the SPCA’s work with animals in need.

Other SPCA events on May 15 include a garage sale fundraiser in support of the Chilliwack SPCA, at 7555 Melville St., from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., and SPCA Fun Day at Oly’s Pet Connection, 45844 Yale Rd. The Fun Day, from noon to 4 p.m., will include a barbecue, face painting, balloon animals and much more.

Games afternoons

Chilliwack Senior Recreation Centre hosts shuffleboard, card and board games every Thursday between 1 and 3 p.m. Members only, $1.

Animal lovers needed

The Chilliwack Animal Safe Haven Society needs volunteers. The society desperately requires help with cat care on Sunday and Tuesday mornings, and for early morning feeds one or two mornings a week. Anyone wanting to volunteer, or adopt a cat, should contact Gayle Brunt at 604-794-7233.

Spring flower show and sale The Chilliwack Floral Art Club hosts its spring show May 14 from 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. and May 15 from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Chilliwack Mall.

Members have created beautiful floral arrangements to view and buy.

Afternoon tea

The public is invited to afternoon tea May 15 at 1:30 p.m. at Chilliwack United Church.

Delicious refreshments and fabulous entertainment.

Admission is $5 at the door.

Cancer fundraiser

The Nightingales Relay for Life team holds a car wash hot dog sale May 15 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at West End Autobody on Airport Road.

The team will also be selling

Community events Included are community events in Chilliwack, hosted or sponsored by non-profit groups. To include your event, contact reporter Tyler Olsen by e-mail at tolsen@chilliwacktimes.com, fax to 604-792-9300 or call 604-792-9117.

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community holds its first World Religions Conference in Chilliwack May 15 from 3 to 7 p.m. Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh and Islamic religious scholars will join other dignitaries, scholars, students and community members to discuss. The group is also looking for an atheist representative. Contact info. bc@ahmadiyya.ca. Pastor Michael Hope will represent Christianity, Brain Ruhe will represent Buddhists, Acharya S.P. Dwivedi will be represent the Hindu faith, Gain Singh Kotli will represent Sikh views and Mubarak Nazir, senior vice-president and missionary In charge of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, will present the Islamic point of view.

meet new friends in the community? Chilliwack Library in partnership with Chilliwack Community Services (604393-3251) is hosting a free Conversation Circle. Mondays, until May 17, 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Chilliwack Library.

Contact the library at 604792-1941.

Seniors bus trips

The Chilliwack & District

Senior Resources Society has a full slate of bus trips planned for the coming months. Upcoming is a trip to the Hell’s Gate Airtram on May 17; “The Buddy Holly Story” on May 19; and a trip to Hat Creek Ranch May 27.

Pet Care Products

Make a shampoo, scented powder, and shrinky-dink tag for your favourite animal May 18 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the Yarrow Library. Join Susan Barclay-Nichols of Chilliwack Community Services for crafty fun and good conversation. Participants must be at least in Grade 7 to attend.

For more information, call Susan at 604-793-7238, email at sjbarclay@telus.net or visit the blog at swiftcraftymonkey.blogspot.com. Our

Get Crafty Craft Program is for Grades 5 and up. Registration is required at the Yarrow Library, 604-823-4664.

Children’s book launch

Hope author Daniel De Serranno will read from his new children’s picture book ScareMe, Beware Me!, a humorous rhyming story that helps kids scare their monsters away, May 18 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Chilliwack Library. Wear your pajamas and be prepared to scare some monsters. For further information, call Kathy McDowell or Maria Godart at the Chilliwack Library at 604792-1941, or visit the library at 45860 First Ave.

School centennial

Strathcona elementary

Legion fundraiser

The Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 4 hosts a garage sale and barbecue May 15 starting at 9 a.m. in the parking lot of the branch, at 9350 Mary St. The Canadian Army Veterans Motorcycle Unit will be in attendance. Table rentals $5. Call 604-792-2337 for more information.

Spring fling

St. Mary’s Church, at 8909 Mary St., hosts a spring fling event May 15 from 11 .m. to 2 p.m. with plants, crafts and baking.

Youth mentors wanted

Fraser Valley Aboriginal Children and Family Services Society is looking for oneto-one mentors to foster a positive relationship with aboriginal youth in the community. Commitments of six months to spend two to four hours with a youth, two to four times per month are needed. Volunteers need to be honest, mature, stable, supportive and loyal, able to have fun and be a friend, and be a positive, healthy role model. Must be 19-plus years of age and undergo a criminal records check. For more information e-mail: julia. mccaffrey@xyolhemeylh. bc.ca.

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Sports Youth rugby The Chilliwack Rugby Society invites anyone interested to participate in community-based youth rugby in the British Columbia Rugby Union Fall 2010 League.

This is a competitive league with teams across the Lower Mainland. As demonstrated through the Middle School League, rugby is a safe and fun sport that kids of all sizes and skill levels can play.

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7, though optional summer training sessions will commence in August. U-19 games are played Saturday mornings, and the U-15 and U-17 teams play on Sundays. Games likely commence Sept. 25). Mouth

guards and rugby or soccer cleats are required. Earlybird registration ends May 21. If needed, financial assistance may be available through KidSport. For more information and a registration form, visit www. chilliwackrugby.com, e-mail info@chilliwackrugby.com, or call Matt Myers at 604795-4690.

River Rescue Purple Hayes Kayaking hosts a two-day river rescue

course June 5 and 6. This course is designed to teach the fundamentals of rescue and safety. Remember, a lot of the problems that arise can be solved with proper planning. Non-paddlers who spend time around the river can skip the boat-based rescues on the first afternoon for a discounted price. Visit www.purplehayes.bc.ca for more information.

Swim signup Cultus Lake-Chilliwack

Stingrays Swim Club is still accepting registration for their summer season. Swimming started May 3 at the Cheam Centre. For more information, please call Phil at 604-858-9894.

Ultimate time Haven’t felt your heart beating in your throat for a while? Still have mud caked on your cleats from last summer? Friday night TV just not doing it for you any more? Friday Night Ulty

(ultimate) has resumed.

Players meet Fridays at 6:30 p.m. at Townsend Park on Field C.

Boxing club The Blue Corner Boxing Club has moved to Yarrow elementary school. The club trains Mondays and Thursdays at 6 p.m. Anyone aged 12 and older is invited to come train. Visit www.bluecornerboxing.ca. ◗ Compiled by staff

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Looking for donations to help build his snail birdhouses The Green Exchange keeps useful items out of the landfill through frugal creativity.

It is run on most Tuesdays.

You are welcome to submit concise, money-free listings.

To place listings please call Terri Dargatz at 604-791-3590 or e-mail her at terlyndar@ shaw.ca. Please remember to put “Green Exchange” in the subject line (you must also pick up the items yourself).

Exchange I am a handy gal in need of some cabinetry or woodworking advice. I will gladly

inet would like to exchange for a two-drawer oak or wood filing cabinet. Call 604-7031330.

The Green Exchange trade for painting or advice on decor or gardening. If you would like to help me out please call 604-858-2184.

Would like to exchange love seat and chair, rolled arms, very good condition, stain resistance exchange for a sofa and loveseat in good condition. Call 604-858-5496.

Four-drawer oak filing cab-

Free A 27-inch Panasonic TV in good working order. Must pick up. Call 604-795-3202.

I have the following items to give away: 22-inch inside door, right or left opening; 13 lengths of 3 1/4” crown molding, 3-9,” 4-8,” 3-7” and 3-6”. Call Ken at 604-8248293.

Queen-size bed, mattress, boxspring and window

blinds. Call 604-858-4116.

Wanted Any free firewood, would greatly appreciate and will pick up. Call 604-858-5644.

Over the past few years, I have been in charge of decorating tables at the The Great Blue Heron Nature Reserve for various volunteer dinners.

I would greatly appreciate it if one of your readers would kindly donate 24 matching clear-glass votive candleholders for our use. Lit candles in the evening give our dinners an extra punch. Please con-

tact Kay at 604-792-8098. I will gladly pick them up.

Travel videos VHS, also magazines, magazines and magazines (Country, Extra, Our Canada, Royalty and Vorsten). Call 604-845-2294.

Small used bed for a three-year-old, a proper child car seat, some baby clothes size eight-month to one-and-a-half-year-old, a hockey stick for a four- and eight-year-old. Also an air compressor, an air conditioner and a small black and decker lawnmower. Call 604-858-9763.

The Quilting Lady has used nearly all her quilting materials, and would appreciate donations of material remnants. Sheets in good condition for backings would also be welcome.

This senior lady made and donated to community organizations more than 100 child-size quilts in 2009.

Please call 604-858-8652.

Senior looking for anybody who is overwhelmed with snails to put in a jar with salt water. I am making birdhouses out of the shells. Call 604-858-1781.

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The Chilliwack Happy Times Jazz Society gives sincere thanks to the following sponsors and supporters who helped to make the 2010 Jazz Festival such a great success!

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In Memoriam

Announcements

Volunteers Desperately Needed

Jenna Leigh Gaetz

May 24, 1980 - May 10, 2002

for Chilliwack River Valley C.O.P. for 5 months.

Our beautiful daughter and sister, Not a day goes by that is not blessed by sweet memories of you.

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Chilliwack River Valley Citizens on Patrol “CRVCOP” are looking for more volunteers. We are the eyes and ears of the RCMP. We check for stolen cars, problems in the neighbourhood and anything that may require police intervention. Our cars are marked so people will know we are out there.

R IV LIWACK ER VALLE HIL May to September weekends. We need more volunteers for 4 hours on Friday and Saturday evenings.

We’re eight years closer to seeing you again.

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IS THERE SOMEONE SPECIAL GRADUATING THIS YEAR? Educational Institution

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The Chilliwack Times will be running a special section for Grads of all ages and we’d like to include as many graduates as we possibly can.

Send us the name of the grad, their school graduating photo and include a brief message of congratulations and who it’s from.

This section will run Tuesday, June 15.

Deadline is Wednesday, June 9.

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Special Olympics Chilliwack

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FEATURED EMPLOYMENT EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS FULL-TIME AND PART-TIME (EXTERNAL)

Stó:lô Nation, one of the leading employers in the Fraser Valley with offices located in Mission and Chilliwack, requires the services of both Part-time and Full-time Early Childhood Educators to work within the Stó:lô Nation Early Childhood Programs for 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.

Some travel will be required for this position as the various early childhood programs are based within the Chilliwack, Mission and Abbotsford areas. Based on services needs, the department reserves the right to relocate workers within the service delivery area. Knowledge of Aboriginal families, family systems and culturally appropriate practices are required.

Following positions that are required: Stó:lô Nation Aboriginal Supported Child Development Program: 1) Consultant – 1 full-time position.

The Consultant will provide support in the inclusion of children who require additional support in early education settings chosen by their families.

2) Support Worker – 1 part-time position.

The Support Worker will assist children who require additional support in a childcare centre(s).

Both the Consultant and Support worker will report to the Support Service supervisor.

Stó:lô Nation Head Start Program: 1) Early Childhood Educator – 1 full-time position 2) Early Childhood Educator – 1 part-time position The Early Childhood Educator will provide early childhood development services to the children within the Daycare, Head Start Family Program or Mission Aboriginal Family Place.

The Early Childhood Educators will report to the Early Childhood Development Program supervisor.

Please Note: a skill and knowledge based test will be administered at the time of interviews.

QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS: • Must possess an Early Childhood Education Certificate or equivalent education • Minimum one year work experience in the early childhood education field • Infant Toddler Diploma and Special Needs Diploma or with experience as asset • Working knowledge of inclusive practices, early intervention, child development and disability and family services delivery model an asset • Completion of level one first aid certification • Familiarity and understanding of First Nations culture and history an asset • Strong interpersonal communication skills • Strong ability to be a team player and work independently; manage time and workload effectively; maintain confidentiality at all times; reflect on and improve professional practice; and maintain a positive, professional, non-judgmental attitude • Knowledge of community childcare resources, other community support services, Aboriginal families, family systems and culturally appropriate practices and when applicable incorporate cultural aspects to early childhood development services • Computer literacy 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: TYPE OF POSITION:

Based on education and experience Full-time and Part Time Term position with benefits, subject to 3-month probationary period and planned performance evaluations.

APPLICATIONS DEADLINE: Friday, May 21, 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: Stó:lô Nation Personnel Department Bldg. #7, Floor #2 – 7201 Vedder Road, Chilliwack, BC, V2R 4G5 Email: jobs@stolonation.bc.ca Fax: (604) 824-5342

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An eligibility list may be established from this posting. We thank all applicants for their interest.

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Hairstylists NewCareer Chilliwack location

• Qualified stylist • Guaranteed wage $10.50/hour • Yearly wage increases • Profit sharing & gratuities • Dental, drug & eyecare plan

We are looking for Youth & Adult Carriers to deliver the Times on Tuesdays & Fridays.

• Paid vacation; 2 weeks after 1 year, 3 weeks after 3 years • Busy location, great atmosphere • No clientele required

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General Employment

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Hourly wage, commission plus benefits.

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Pref. Class 1 Lic. or 3yrs towing exp. Top Pay! Call Craig 1-877-890-4523 www.starfleettrucking.com

General Employment

Floral Manager

Come join our growing floral department.

Fun & great place to work.

Applicant must be competent in all aspects of a busy floral department.

Competitive wage & benefits.

Apply by email to littlemountaingreen houses@shaw.ca Attn Marc Shane or fax to 604-792-7766

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JOURNEYMAN AUTO Body Tech or 2nd year Apprentice.

Must be an honest, team player with quality workmanship. Resume required. Westend Autobody 45825 Airport Rd Chilliwack

FLAGPERSONS & LANE CLOSURE TECHS

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Radio and TV Announcer

Alamgir Entertainers, located at #102 - 2353, Peardonville Road, Abbotsford urgently requires services of an experienced Announcer. The company primarily presents programs and other entertainments in Punjabi and Hindi languages. Main duties include: host entertainment and information for broadcast on Radio and T.V., prepare public service announcement, select music and videos, introduce and interview guests, liaison and promotes community issues. Must have university graduation and 5 years of demonstrated experience. Salary $ 27.00/hr.

Fax resume to 604-746-2887.

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REVOLUTION MARTIAL ARTS seeking Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Instructor work in 3 dif. locations.

Requirement: Braz. Jiu-jitsu black belt min. 3 yrs w/ min. 5 yrs instructor exp. $18.00hr/40 hr wk. e-resume: fightclubca@shaw.ca

SALES PERSON FARM SUPPLY

Job includes shipping, fork lift experience, knowledge of farm and ranch supplies. Wages negotiable depending on exp. Only experienced applicants need apply.

Please reply to box C100 C/O Chilliwack Times 45951 Trethewey Ave. Chilliwack, BC V2P 1K4

VISITOR CENTRE REPRESENTATIVE

Tourism Chilliwack is seeking a friendly, outgoing person for a summer position. Strong customer service skills and knowledge of Chilliwack and B.C. are important.

Please apply with resume in person to Chilliwack Visitor Centre, 44150 Luckakuck Way, by Friday, May 14th.

WELDER REQUIRED for steel fabrication shop.

Fax resume to 604-852-5614.

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Hotel Restaurant

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Trades/Technical

Cabinet Maker

Valley Countertops Industries Ltd. a leading manufacturing company for cabinets, fixtures and counter tops located at 30781 Simpson Road, Abbotsford requires a qualified Cabinet Maker. Job duties include: study specification of the articles to be made, mark outline, operate a variety of woodworking machines to assemble and install complete units. Minimum Grade 12 with 4 year of experience as a Cabinet Maker and other related tasks. Salary $ 20.50 pr/hr. Please fax your resumes to 604-852-9066

DRIVER WANTED: Terrific career opportunity with growth potential to learn how to locate rail defects using NDT. No Exp. Needed!! Extensive paid travel, meal allowance, benefits pkg.

Skills Needed - Valid License, mechanically inclined, High School Diploma and ability to travel 3 months at a time. Apply online at www.sperryrail.com go to Careers, Enter Keyword Driver do not fill in the city or state SOUTH ROCK LTD. is seeking an Asphalt Superintendent, Paver Operators, HD Mechanics and all experienced paving personnel for work throughout Alberta.

Visit www.southrock.ca for more details or to apply.

Fax 403-568-1327

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Work Wanted

TREE & GARBAGE removal , yard work, tree planting, pressure washing. Logging, any job large or small.

Ph. Darrell 604-858-0203

NOW HIRING for All Shifts

Please apply in person to 45625 Luckakuck Way or burgerking.ca No phone calls please

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JOHN DEERE LT155 garden tractor with 42in. mower deck and hyrostatic drive. Approx. 10 yrs old. Great condition. Serviced at end of last summer. $1000.

604-824-7454 KENMORE WASHER & dryer, heavy duty. $200/pair obo. good working order. 604-792-7788 NEW COMMERCIAL mop bucket on casters includes squeezer, mop & mop re fills $50, flat deck trailer made from travel trailer 7x10, great for quads $200 needs floor boards, trailer made from pick up box, needs floor boards, trailer made from pick up box, needs floor repair $120, 8’x12’x6’ high movable dog run with gate $400 extra framed panels $100 ea for increasing size of pen, several available, big selection of 3’x4’ high small chain link garden gates as low as $30, six foot high gates 3’-10’ avail, like new very strong running cordless elec lawn mower with mulcher and rear bag $180, Big parrot cage $50, Makita sliding mitre saw $200, new 5 HP air compressor $130, gas pressure washer $200, runs great needs new hose, boat trailer $200, light aluminium utility trailer for small car $350. 604-793-7714

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Furniture

ANTIQUE DOUBLE bed frame $50 Nice handmade cedar chest $30 Vintage kitchen/bedroom chair $15 604-703-0885

COUCH LIKE new 2 seater from Room by Room soft red 1 yr old, gorgeous, no pets new $1800 selling $675 obo. VINTAGE coffee and end table wood glass and wrought iron legs $275 both.

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BOOKS COMPLETE set Harvard Classics - 50 volumes, 1 Volume of lectures $50 604-792-7570

KING SIZE TemperPedic mattress & frame, as new $2500.

Call 604-824-6792

CAMPBELL HAUSFELD 4 gallon, 125 PSI, 2HP air compressor & hose $75 604-792-4827

PUB STYLE table and 8 chairs, almost new condition, sacrifice Call Ken. $500 604-846-4363

COMPUTER DESK w hutch $60 Maple colonial style 9 drwr dresser w mirror $90 Manual treadmill $60 Love seat $35 604-796-3854 CUSTOM COMPUTER system, CDRW, DVD, 15’’ screen, XP, fast and reliable, can deliver $99 604-845-9000 ELECTRIC LAWNMOWER, electric Toro trimmer & long electric cord $85 604-792-3442

COUNTER SALES PERSON Part time Local retailer requires a counter sales person for year round part time and seasonal full time employment. Ability to deal with customers in a fast- paced retail environment is essential. $9.00/ hr to start, increases based on performance. This position is well suited for University student. Submit written resumes to box 1236542/C11 C/O Chilliwack Times 45951 Trethewey Ave.

Drivers

CLASS 1 DRIVER with clean driver’s abstract, schedule run Chwk. - Kelowna 3 times per/wk night work. Call 604-824-7161.

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AMANA WASHER & dryer set, heavy duty exc cond. $500, can deliver. 604- 847-0579

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MAYTAG FRIDGE & Dryer, Self cleaning coil range, white with black trim $100 each excellent condition 604-792-2535

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Garage Sale

Garrison Crossing

5967 Sappers Way

Multi Family Garage Sale

Sat May 15 8 am to 2 pm

Furniture household items, bed, etc

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Health Products & Equipment

MISC AQUARIUM equipment for sale pumps, heaters, filters, lights, stands, aquariums etc. $100 604-791-7976 NEAR NEW 3 HP, 30 gallon, Coleman Powermate Professional Air Compressor on rubber tires w new hose $225 604-792-4827 NEW 7000 pound 48’’ high, Jack All Jack $75 604-792-4827 ROCKWELL 10’’ Unisaw with extension bars & tenoning Jig $400 604-792-7570 SAKURA BINOCULARS made in Japan, brand new, fully coated optics, 180x90 $100 604-792-3442 TWO AREA rugs 5ft x 4ft, grey/ pink, rust/brown $15 ea New wall mirror $25 604-703-0885 WEIGHT DISTRIBUTING hitch, EAZ-LIFT, class 4, complete $100 604-792-7570

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Farm Equipmment

NEW HOLLAND 268 baler and disc mower. Call after 5pm 604-858-9568 Chilliwack

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For Sale Miscellaneous

DINING TABLE 6 chairs, 70 inch hutch, oak, $1500, upright freezer, small $200 obo; 604-795-7971 HUNDREDS OF sheets good used galvanized roofing 32' wide as low as .72 cents linear foot, lower grade even less money. If you need used metal roofing this summer you may not find it this cheap again. Example 14’x32’ $120. Call 604-793-7714

SCOOTER - Legend by Pride, 4 wheels, carry 350lbs. will go 25mi @ 5.75mph before recharging.

Integral charger with cord. Orig. $3700, never used $2500obo.

Will Deliver to Vanc Lower Mainland area. 604-888-7967

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Musical Instruments

INDUSTRIAL HEAT shrink tunnel $450 obo, 7’X9’ WALK in cooler, condenser & compressor $850 obo. Ph 604-316-0968

TECHNICS DIGITAL Piano (SXPC26), 6 digital voices, Asking $1100 obo 604-703-0301

JD LAWN TRACTOR w/bagger, LA135 S.E, 48 hours, mint, paid $2900 now $2400. 604 -703-1646

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Dogs

GOLDEN LAB x Husky, beautiful colours. ready to go, 2 female, $450, Delta 604-834-4300

CEDAR HEDGING 6 - 7 ft tall , potted. $10ea. Ph 604-858-4429 HEDGING TREES 10 FOR $100 5’ OR 6’. Call 604-858-3559 or 604-846-6064

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COCKER SPANIEL p/b pups with papers vet. shots, ready now, Vanc. $650 neg. 604-708-1752

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DACHSHUND / POM X, 7 months old, good family dog, good w/ kids $350. 604-854-8280

Cats

5 KITTENS, ready May 17th. 2 orange tabby,1 blk/grey tabby, 2 tri col. $100 ea 604-872-6025

LABS YELLOW PB vet chkd, 1st shots, dewormed, fam raised, May 30. $550. 604-537-5063

May 9, see parents 604-820-8513

Lessons/Training

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POM PUPS 7 months old, male, neutered, all shots, ckc, cute, vet ✔, $700 obo. 604-590-2423

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3530 MALTESE PUPS, 1st shots, vet chk’d, health guar, $550 ready

Lower Mainland Publishing, a Canwest company, has partnered with the BC SPCA to encourage responsible pet guardianship and the humane treatment of animals. Before purchasing a new puppy, ensure the seller has provided excellent care and treatment of the animal and the breeding parents. For a complete guide to finding a reputable breeder and other considerations when acquiring a new pet, visit spca.bc.ca.

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Public Notice is hereby given that City Council intends to adopt “Highway Closure and Removal of Dedication Bylaw 2010, No. 3690”, to stop up and close to traffic portions of Korea Road, no longer required for road purposes, at the Regular Council meeting to be held on Monday, May 17, 2010. The intent of this notice is to allow Council to receive input from all persons who believe their interest in property is affected by the proposed highway closure and removal of dedication.

1. That the portions of road designated as Parcels “A” and “B” (Road to be Closed) contained within the area outlined in heavy black linage on “Reference Plan to Accompany City of Chilliwack “Highway Closure and Removal of Dedication Bylaw 2010, No. 3690”, prepared by Tunbridge and Tunbridge, B.C. Land Surveyors, and dated April 14, 2010, and as shown below, is hereby stopped up and closed to traffic of all kinds.

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2. The highway dedication shall be removed and the title of land comprised within the portions of road so stopped up and closed shall be vested with the City of Chilliwack.

3. A copy of the proposed “Highway Closure and Removal of Dedication Bylaw 2010, No. 3690” may be viewed during office hours 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday except holidays, at the Office of the City Clerk in the City Hall, 8550 Young Road, Chilliwack, BC. 4. Enquiries regarding this matter may be directed to Wayne Moseanko, Property Manager, at 604-793-2936.

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RENTALS 6508

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6508

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6508

Apt/Condos

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6008-10

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6020-26

CHILLIWACK, 9512 Carroll St. 3BRM rancher, 2 baths, 4 appls.

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6050

Out Of Town Property

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6052

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6065

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Suites/Partial Houses

6602

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Pet neg. Immed. 604-813-7648 SARDIS GARRISON Crossing, 3 br 2.5 bath, 2 garage, 6 appl, own w/d, ns np, $1300. Refs, June 1st. 604-847-3273

Warehouse/ Commercial

6620

6580

WAREHOUSE & office space for lease, up to 12,000sf of Warehouse and 3,200sf of executive offices. Available Aug 15, 2010 Chillwack. Call 604-991-7200

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1 bdrm condo Newmark 4th Flr....... $700 1 bdrm condo F/S...................... $595 1 bdrm suite 4 appl, incl util........... $700 2 bdrm twnhse adult 45+, Agassiz... $995 2 bdrm condo Garrison, 6 appl ....... $950 2 bdrm condo F/S Covered Stalls..... $700 3 bdrm hse + 2 bdrm inlaw ste 2 car garage, all appl ..................... $1800 4 bdrm hse 5 appl, close to F.G.leary $1400 4 bdrm hse FFI., new paint/floors ... $1400 4 bdrm hse Sardis ................... $1400 HARRISON HOTSPRINGS

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9145

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9145

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8160

Lawn & Garden

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9515

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8130

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8160

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8220

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8185

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8195

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8210

8240

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Shonnet Allen Ross Beebe Mike Britton Kate Chapman Elisabeth Chisholm Richard Crawford Marlene Dance Jim Finley Fran Heagy Steve Henrotte Sandi Massie Francois Najda Denis Robertson Roberta Smith Don Sharp

2006 winners Jim Sache Joe Ogmundson Laura Watson Max Abrams Mike Hawley Ron Duke Pat Webber

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This year’s Chilliwack Community Sport Heroes are (left to right) Peter Lui (a friend is pictured here standing in for Peter who could not attend the ceremony), Laurie Bjorge, Ken St. Louis, Todd Morrison, Glenn Wilson, Jim Willix, Gary Wagner and Glen Trojanoski.

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n May 4, the Chilliwack Community Sport Hero Awards banquet honoured those individuals who have volunteered countless hours to the development of athletes in Chilliwack.

The annual awards banquet, sponsored by the Chilliwack Times, Sport BC, Star FM, Best Western Rainbow Country Inn, Envision Financial and the City of Chilliwack, and now

celebrating its sixth year, was created to give back to those who have given so much to amateur sports.

Friends and family, along with past recipients, came out to show their support. This year’s list of recipients of the Chilliwack Community Sport Hero Award included: Laurie Bjorge, Peter Lui, Ken St. Louis, Todd Morrison, Glen Trojanoski, Gary Wagner, Jim Willix and Glenn Wilson.

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She’s in it for love M

ost people start volunteering with sport clubs and organizations because of their kids—not Laurie Bjorge.

She has volunteered with the Chilliwack Minor Football Association (CMFA) for 15 years, and she has never had a kid in the program.

It wasn’t her love of football that drew her either.

Chilliwack-born and raised, Bjorge vaguely remembers her brothers playing at Sardis secondary back when the school had a football program, but that didn’t leave much of an impression.

So why did Bjorge start dedicating so much time to local minor football?

“I think it was for love,” she said with a laugh, remembering the games she has taped in the sleet and freezing rain with the club’s ancient and heavy video camera.

“My football connection would be my husband Wayne.”

When she met Wayne Bjorge in 1995, he was up to his neck in the

flourishing local football association he’d helped found with two friends (Keith Currie and Don Wiens) in 1991.

He was coaching a midget-level team at the time, and Bjorge was brought on board as team manager back when that position was just taking shape.

“It wasn’t too well organized back then,” she said with a laugh.

The action on the field and the family atmosphere of the association soon drew her in.

“I just liked being part of the team,” she said.

“It was a lot of fun, and the kids were fun.”

Bjorge is currenly the treasurer of the CMFA, but over the past 15 years she has held numerous positions including secretary, registrar and concession manager. Most years she takes on multiple roles.

At the league level, she is the treasurer of the Valley Community Football League.

Besides all the official titles, she also works tirelessly behind

the scenes at fundraisers and during game days, according to Wayne, who is now president of the CMFA. “Laurie has given of herself like no other volunteer I have ever seen,” he said.

Although meeting the man of her dreams might have gotten her started, Bjorge long ago developed her own attachment the Chilliwack minor football family.

And she’s definitely gained an appreciation for the game itself.

“It’s so team oriented,” she said.

“If you have one kid who’s just in it for himself, it doesn’t work.”

After being with the organization for 15 years, one thing that thrills Bjorge is seeing players who went through the program in the early years come back to register their own kids.

“We see that more and more now,” she said. “Their football experience was really good and positive, and they want their children to be a part of that. I really love to see that.”

Laurie Bjorge always gets a thrill when former players who went through the program come back to register their kids.

Swept up by the joy P

eter Lui’s first curling experience was enough to turn anyone off.

When he took up the sport in 1988 at age 38, the Oakville Curling Club, where he got his start, didn’t offer beginner’s clinics, but paired beginners up with experienced curlers instead.

“They were supposed to ease you in to the sport,” said Lui. Unfortunately, however, Lui and his wife, Maggie, were matched with a pair of cocky young kids who rolled their eyes every time Lui slipped and bruised his knee on the ice.

Instead of giving up, though, he was determined to get good enough to beat them at their own game.

“I made up my mind,” he said.

“That was my motivation.”

Three years later, when the Canadian Curling Association came out with a coaching program, Lui saw it as his chance to spare other beginners the same ordeal.

He earned his Level One certi-

fication in 1991 and Level Two in 1993 and has coached curling ever since.

He loves the game’s blend of competitiveness and friendliness.

“We want to beat the opposition badly during the game,” he said, “and then after the game, win or lose, we will have a drink with the opposition.”

Since retiring early from a stressful banking career and leaving bigcity life behind in 2000, Lui and his wife settled first in Castlegar and then in Chilliwack three years ago.

With a grown son and daughter out of the house, and his career behind him, Lui now has plenty of time to indulge his two grand passions—curling and golf.

He gets in about four rounds of golf a week whenever the weather allows.

It’s an obsession that gripped him late in life, when he was almost 50. During his working years, he couldn’t see the appeal of chasing a “stupid white ball” around.

“Now I understand why,” he said.

While Lui still curls competitively, it’s the kids in Chilliwack who really benefit from his old love of the sport.

After only three years in the city, he’s already spent one year as head coach and co-ordinator of the junior program at the Chilliwack Curling Club.

“The sport itself gives me a lot of joy,” he said, “so I just want to do my share in putting back into the sport.”

Besides running weekly sessions that involve about 60 kids, ages six and up, every Monday evening, Lui coaches the club’s juvenile boys team and sits on the board as vicepresident.

He also gives private lessons and donates the proceeds to the junior program to help cover travelling expenses for tournaments.

The most rewarding part for Lui is watching struggling students, young and old, improve after he gives them advice, an opportunity he never had as a beginner.

“When the student’s happy, I’m happy,” he said.

Peter Lui is making it easier for beginners to enjoy the great game of curling.

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Keeping the game alive T

odd Morrison started playing fastpitch more than 20 years ago, and he doesn’t plan to quit any time soon.

“I want to play as long as I can,” he said, “probably until they cart me off on a stretcher or have to wheel me out to home plate to catch.”

Although Morrison has dedicated a good part of his adult life to playing and coaching fastpitch, his first sports as a kid growing up in Victoria were soccer and lacrosse.

He might never have taken to the ball diamond if his knees had held out, but when he was eight years old, a doctor told him he would have to quit lacrosse if he didn’t want to get his knees drained every year.

His switch to baseball the following year wasn’t a popular one with his soccer- and rugby-playing dad.

“He actually called it a wimpy sport,” said Morrison with a laugh, “but after I started to play it, he became a really big fan.”

Morrison switched to fastpitch

when he was 17. With shorter distances between the bases, and between the pitcher and home plate, Morrison was drawn to the game’s pace.

“It’s just a quicker game,” he said.

“I like the fact that you’re always in the game. It doesn’t matter what position you play.”

He played in Victoria until he was 21, and then moved to Chilliwack hoping to join an Abbotsford senior A team—Fast as Flite. The team was one of several high-calibre teams he played for during his career, the most recent being the Vancouver Grey Sox, a team he also helped coach after he retired Morrison’s coaching career first started when he met his wife.

She was playing ball with a local women’s team, the Valley Cats, and he was eager to pass on some of the know-how imparted to him by some of his great coaches.

“For me it’s another way to be still in the game, involved with the game,” he said.

His time with the Valley Cats ended last year after 15 seasons and two provincial championship titles.

Another example of Morrison putting his high-level fastpitch experience to work for Chilliwack happened two years ago when he brought the Grey Sox to Chilliwack to run a clinic for minor girls and boys. For Morrison, it’s all part of keeping the game he loves going in the city. When he moved here in 1990, softball was thriving with three divisions of men’s ball, two church divisions and an 11-team women’s league. Now there is only one men’s team and five women’s teams left, something Morrison chalks up to the growing profile of baseball in the area and the decision of the International Olympic Committee to drop softball from the Games.

“It’s been such a good game,” he said. “I just hope all the coaches that are putting in their time and helping develop the game are rewarded at the end of the day with the game still being alive.”

Todd Morrison is doing all he can to keep the game of fastpitch alive and well here in the Fraser Valley.

Short track, long history

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rowing up in southwestern Ontario, near Windsor, Ken St. Louis spent his fair share of time on skates.

“There was a lot of ice there in the winter time,” he said with a laugh, remembering many hours spent skating on the open lakes back east.

He’d seen all kinds of skating on TV too, but it wasn’t until 1992, when he was in his 30s, that he got his first live glimpse of short track.

“I was just blow away by it,” he said. “I couldn’t believe the speed in such close proximity.”

St. Louis was a fan of fast-paced sports. When he was in Grade 10, he traded in all the mainstream sports he’d been playing like baseball, football, basketball and hockey to commit five years to competitive European handball —a sport introduced into his school by a Danish teacher who’d grown up with the sport in his home country.

St. Louis’s introduction to short track came years later, after he had moved to Chilliwack and started a young family.

He came to the rink because a friend had asked him to help out as a timer at the North American championships being held here that year.

Impressed as he was by his first taste of the sport, he didn’t get involved with the Sardis Fliers Speed Skating Club until he signed up his son, Kelsey, for their learnto-skate program a few years later.

Kelsey took to it right away, and it wasn’t long before his daughter Kayla was racing too.

St. Louis and his wife Kandyce, in the meantime, fell in love with the family atmosphere at the rink and soon dove into active roles with the club.

“It wasn’t a drop-and-go sport where you drop the kids and leave,” he said. “You stuck around

and were a part of it.”

Of the 15 years he’s been with the club, St. Louis has spent close to 10 years as president and volunteered countless hours organizing the club’s annual relay challenge, timing at most of the competitions in B.C. and working on equipment.

Watching his own kids race at the provincial and national levels gave St. Louis plenty of motivation to stay involved, but even now—after both Kelsey and Kayla have retired—he’s still behind the scenes as bingo co-ordinator, keeping the club’s main source of revenue flowing smoothly and the sport affordable so more kids can get involved.

“When I see those young kids go out there for the first time, I just feel happy watching,” he said. “It’s that good feeling you get when you figure there’s a part of this that keeps happening because of your involvement.”

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Better as a coach I

t probably wouldn’t work for everyone, but Glen Trojanoski’s secret to being a great baseball coach was being a lousy player.

“I really understand kids who can’t play, so I can work with them,” he said.

Trojanoski’s playing career lasted all of two years as a peewee playing in his home town, Richmond.

He loved the sport, but it just didn’t come easy.

“I was afraid of the ball,” he said.

“I couldn’t catch.”

He stopped playing after two years but stuck around the park to help out because his younger brother was starting on the team.

He stuck around long enough to be taken on as an assistant coach, and when the head coach had a heart attack a couple of years later, Trojanoski took over the team, at age 16.

Looking back on 44 years of coaching, Trojanoski laughs at how much times have changed.

“It was the ‘60s and I had long hair; I played in a band,” he said.

what he calls his most difficult “There’s absolutely no way as a challenge—coaching his own son. parent today I would let that kid “It’s hard to be a coach and a coach my kid, even though I was a parent at the same time,” he said. good kid.”

“If you’re sitting in the stands and Trojanoski coached peewee you’re watching your son play, you for about five more years before die and live out there with him. But bringing one group of players all the when you’re coaching, you can’t way through the midget level and show that. You can’t be the dad.” taking the provincial title to boot.

He coached his son all the way Since moving to Chilliwack in from T-ball until 1990, he has become an “It’s hard to be a coach he graduated from Midget AAA integral part of and a parent at the just last year, the Chilliwack and with that Minor Baseball same time.” chapter finished, Association, coaching at every Glen Trojanoski Trojanoski is taking his first level and serving season off in 44 on the board as years. president, league co-ordinator and “It’s not as bad as I thought,” he director. said.

But for Trojanoski, the most Mind you, he’s still thoroughly rewarding work has always been immersed in baseball with his work honing players’ skills at the park.

“I love to practice,” he said. “That’s on the CMBA board and his job at Prostock Athletic in Burnaby, and the best part for me, doing drills, even this early in the season he’s watching kids get better.” already talking about finding a team He was 20 years into his coaching to help out on. career before he came up against

Glen Trojanoski put together 44 consecutive years coaching various levels of baseball.

A cosmic experience A

s a one-time hippy and latter-day renaissance man, sports haven’t been the be all and end all of Gary Wagner’s life.

Ever since he started playing baseball at age eight, though, he’s always enjoyed the satisfaction of a game well played, and he’s ended up seeing plenty as a player, coach and official.

To him, sports bring to mind the words of OliverWendell Holmes: “As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.”

It’s a sentiment that rings as true for him today, playing with the Chilliwack Senior Slo-Pitch Association, as it did when he was a kid.

“It’s the competition,” he said, “getting a base hit, making the play.

You’re on third base and somebody cranks one down at you and you snap it up and throw him out at first—it’s the joy of that.”

Most ofWagner’s sports experiences have revolved around base-

That same attitude motivated him ball, although he also spent about last year to organize and coach a 15 years coaching community and team of Chilliwack Senior Slo-Pitch school soccer when his kids were players for the B.C. Senior Games in young, and he still referees the game Richmond. in town.

The team got pounded by players But baseball and softball have trailed him most of his life, from Little seven and eight years younger and more used to tournament play, but League as a youngster to five years Wagner said the camaraderie and in the hippy Cosmic League inVancompetition were couver in the 1970s worth the trip. (when he played “Somebody has to do With some for a team called members of the Flex Morgan and it, so why not me.”

Senior Slo-Pitch the Mock HeroGary Wagner Association playics) to 15 years in ing well into their Chilliwack’s church 80s,Wagner, at age league.

68, hopes to be making plays at the He joined the Chilliwack Senior park for a good many years yet.

Slo-Pitch Association as a relative He’s not thinking of giving up youngster at age 55, some years umpiring baseball and refereeing before retiring from a 30-year career soccer any time soon either. as a local high school English, math “I have this vision,” he said, “of and drama teacher. being 80 years old and hobbling out When his kids were young and onto a U-12 field, and some kid will he was playing in the local church say, ‘Oh, here comes the old guy.’ And league,Wagner often ended up it’ll be a positive comment. They’ll coaching.

“Somebody has to do it, so why not be happy to see me, because I’ll do a good job and I’ll be fun to be with.” me,” he said.

Gary Wagner can still remember his days playing in the hippie Vancouver Cosmic League.

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or Huskers equipment manager Jim Willix, the word “football” hasn’t always referred to the pointy kind he works with now.

When he was a youngster in Belfast, Northern Ireland, a football was a soccer ball, and Willix knew how to use one.

In his late teens he played on reserve teams for Ards and Glentoran, two clubs in the country’s professional league.

He had to give it up in his early 20s because his job demanded a lot of the travel, but when he moved to Canada in 1966, he brought his love of soccer with him.

After 12 years in Toronto, Willix settled in Richmond with his family and began coaching there.

Counting other coaching stints in Aldergrove and Langley, Willix estimates his soccer coaching career in Canada spanned about 20 years.

Only one of those was spent coaching his son, Andrew, before the youngster jumped ship for the gridiron at age 12.

But that’s no sad story for Willix.

“I don’t care what sport they play as long as they’re playing sports,” he said, “and I will help them to play that sport.”

Willix was a fan during his son’s high school years, and when Andrew joined the Richmond Raiders,Willix got involved on the board.

Andrew graduated from the junior program, but bad knees ended his career after a couple of seasons at Taft College in California and a brief time training with the Ottawa Roughriders.

Back in B.C., he was snapped up by former Huskers head coach Dave Haynes as a line coach.

By the time Willix decided to retire in Chilliwack, Andrew had been coaching with the team for two years, and Willix was soon a fixture at the games. It wasn’t long before he was asked to join the board.

He did—for a year—but says it just wasn’t exactly his kind of work.

“I’d rather be up to my neck in bullets,” he said.

In the bowels of Exhibition

Stadium he found work more to his liking—organizing, repairing, adjusting and cleaning the team’s equipment.

“This kind of stuff suits me,” he said. “It’s hands on. I’m part janitor, part equipment manager. Anything to do with the dressing room or the storage places, that’s my domain.”

When he started eight years ago, it was only to help out a bit, but a week into that season the regular equipment manager quit and handed him the keys.

“That was the start,” he said.

Since then, from about a month before the season starts until about a month after it ends, Willix has volunteered about 30 hours a week managing the Huskers’ equipment and dressing room.

The team couldn’t run without him, but Willix says the job is a godsend, giving him something rewarding to do in his retirement.

“You get a lot of satisfaction with these boys,” he said. “You’ve got 50 boys, and you can see them develop.

It’s just satisfying.”

Sitting on the board of directors didn’t suit Jim Willix, he’s happier working as equipment manager for the team.

Caught coaching bug

W

hen Glenn Wilson immigrated to Canada as a teenager in 1979, he landed in Whitehorse, Yukon.

It was a long way from the south of England where he grew up, but he remembers the first sight of soccer goalposts on a local field taking some of the sting out of the massive culture shock.

“All we’d ever heard about before that in Canada was ice hockey,” he said.

Until he immigrated at age 16, soccer had been a way of life.

“After school, almost every day we’d cross into the school soccer field with our friends,” he said. “We’d throw a couple of sweaters down to make goal posts, and we’d play.”

Luckily for Wilson, his family didn’t last long in the Yukon, and his parents settled in Chilliwack while he moved on to Coquitlam, playing in local leagues there.

The soccer was still fairly primitive then, according to Wilson, but the original North American Soccer League (NASL) and the Vancouver

Whitecaps were still going strong.

He spent a short time training with the team’s reserve/youth squad, but league regulations designated him as a European player, effectively ending his chances.

“If they only had room for six European players on their roster, they were going to make sure that they were professionals, not some 17-year-old kid,” he said.

Wilson’s passion for playing was shouldered aside by the coaching bug in his 30s.

It started as a favour in 1991 when he took on a North Delta under-21 team that had lost its coach halfway through the season. “I got a buzz from it right away,” he said.

Almost two decades later, he’s still hooked.

Wilson settled in Chilliwack with his young family in 1994 and there is rarely a day he is not on the field.

He coached three teams this year: a women’s U-21 Pacific Coast Soccer League (PCSL) team, a metro level girls team and a U-21 men’s team.

He has also spent five years as an age group instructor for Chilliwack FC’s youth academy and has coordinated the club’s 1,100-player spring league for three years.

As owner of SoccerPlus, soccer is Wilson’s day job too.

He thrives on being busy, he said, but what really keeps him going is working with enthusiastic kids who are willing to learn. “I find that once you get on the soccer field, everything else just disappears,” he said. “All the other concerns of the day disappear, and you’re just working with a bunch of kids.”

Over the years, two of those kids have been his own—Adam, 20, and Kirsten, 18—both of whom he’ll be coaching again this year.

Wilson has seen a lot of changes in local soccer and as Chilliwack grows, he expects soccer to keep growing right along with it.

As it does, chances are he’ll have a hand in it one way or another.

“It’s in my blood I suppose you could say,” he said. “I can’t imagine not doing it.”

Glenn Wilson rarely has a day when he’s not on a soccer field.

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2007 Chilliwack Community Sport Hero Award winners Rolf Wedler and Heinrich Meister show their support for this year’s winners by attending Tuesday night’s celebration.

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