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Struck down while on highway 22-year-old woman killed
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BY TYLER OLSEN tolsen@chilliwacktimes.com
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hile veterans shouted, Chilliwack-Fraser Canyon MP Chuck Strahl sang. Hundreds of veterans and their supporters marched to MP Chuck Strahl’s office Saturday morning to demand better treatment and changes to the way the government compensates veterans and
2 2 - y e a r- o l d C h i l l i w a c k woman is dead after being struck early Saturday morning while on the Trans-Canada Highway. The woman had been one of four people in a car that had broken down on the eastbound side of the highway near Annis Road early in the morning. The vehicle had stopped on the right-side shoulder, but the woman had walked into the left lane of the highway when she was hit by an SUV. The woman “appears to have died on impact,” said Insp. Rob DeBoersap. The driver of the SUV EB IRST was on his way to work when he First reported on hit the woman. chilliwacktimes.com Alcohol was not a factor. The three other people in the car were standing on the shoulder of the road when the crash took place. Police still don’t know why the woman ended up on the highway. “I don’t know why she was out there,” said DeBoersap. The Upper Fraser Valley First Nations policing unit and victim services are assisting the woman’s family. Highway 1 eastbound was closed for several hours Saturday morning while police investigated the scene.
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MP Chuck Strahl a no-show as hundreds of veterans gathered to deliver six demands
their families. “We seek justice and demand respect,” Joe Beauchene told onlookers and hundreds of fellow vets at the culmination of the parade. “It is time for the government to listen. No more lip service.” The veterans hoped to deliver a
petition and present Strahl with a list of six demands, including an end to lump-sum settlements for soldiers injured in the line of duty and the restoration of a lifetime monthly disability pension. Strahl, however, was a no-show. Instead, he was at a Langley golf
course, where he and four other MPs who sing together in a southern gospel choir called MP5 were slated to perform at a political fundraiser. Beauchene said the veterans had See RALLY, Page 7
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