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s Julie Houlker’s fight with cancer draws to a close, a group of Fraser Rickaby and Glenda Standeven have Valley women are doing their best to recovered fully from their fights with cancer, make her final dream come true.

Houlker’s story has not been so bright.

Julie Houlker is one of three Chilliwack When the cancer metastasized, Julie woman who penned Choosing to was informed that she had, at the Smile, an inspirational book that tells most, 18 months to live. That was the true stories of three friends who almost five years ago. She wrestled grew up as baby boomers and who more life from her death sentence all happened to get cancer—each and has not wasted the days she one in a different decade of her life.

EB IRST has been given. Spending time Houlker was first diagnosed with First reported on with her granddaughter, traveling breast cancer in 1995, when she was chilliwacktimes.com with her husband, and paddling with in her 40s. When a malignancy was a dragon boat team, have all given her discovered under the site of a previous ample reasons to forge on. She also used her breast reconstruction surgery, Julie gained valuable time to tell her story in Choosing to the dubious distinction of being one of the few Smile, along with two of her best friends. women in the world to have a mastectomy Writing a best-selling book has been on twice on the same side of her chest.

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And in less than a year, the self-published book has sold more than 1,500 copies.

Five thousand sold copies is what it takes to qualify as a Canadian best-seller.

But while sales of the book have been brisk, time may be running out on Julie’s dream.

With chemotherapy no longer effective, Houlker has entered the Cascade Hospice Centre in Chilliwack to live out her final days.

Hospice stays are usually expected to be fewer than three months long. Houlker was admitted to hospice three weeks ago.

Houlker might have reasons to be bitter about the cards life has dealt her but when you enter her hospice room you instantly sense the See FINAL WISH, Page 18

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Brian Arthur Racher was found guilty last month of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old woman whom he had paid for sex. Racher, who was high on crack cocaine at the time, tied the woman up and hit her in the head with a wrench during a “date” on a Cultus Lake forest service road.

Crown counsel John Lester told the Times last week that he will seek to have Racher deemed a dangerous offender.

Racher’s next court appearance is scheduled for Jan. 4 in Chilliwack Supreme Court.

Justice Brian Joyce found Racher guilty last month after a trial at which the defence argued that the incident—which saw Racher tie the woman up after she refused to perform a certain sex act and, after she escaped, hit her with a wrench—was not sexual in nature.

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“This is the cat’s meow,” said Chantale Tremblay, a volunteer with the fundraising campaign, taking in the improvements.

The new emergency department—triple the size of the existing on—features more treatment areas, three rooms to isolate people with infectious diseases, two rooms to seclude patients with mental health issues, six observation rooms to hold patients overnight, and a room each dedicated to pediatrics, gynecology and ear, nose and throat issues.

Jan. 5 Laura and Aaron Bayes had a New Year’s surprise they never expected as Laura gave birth to the first baby born in the Lower Mainland at Chilliwack General Hospital at 12:46 a.m.

Being the New Year’s Baby is always a bit of a surprise, but little James Henry Darwin was born an entire month early.

“It was really unexpected. He was due Feb.1,” 28-year-old Aaron said.

“They put him in an incubator for a few hours, but then they looked at him and said he was fine.”

Jan. 5 Business and light industrial property owners were in for a bit of a shock as assessments were up 10 to 15 per cent.

The increase was typical across the Lower Mainland and actually brought the situation “back to normal,” according to BC Assessment.

Residential assessments were down 1.2 per cent for single family homes, 8.8 per cent for strata apartments and 4.9 per cent for strata townhouses.

Jan. 8 Chilliwack secondary grad Jane Meadwell was lighting up the boards as part of the University of the Fraser Valley’s women’s basketball team.

Meadwell was filling up the basket at a greater clip than anyone else in Canada West as the fivefoot-nine guard led the conference in scoring with an average of 21.9 points per game, almost four more per game than that of her nearest rival, Caitlin Gooch of Winnipeg.

Jan. 12 Restraint was be the word of 2010 regarding the annual municipal budget, according to Mayor Sharon Gaetz.

Much of the economy was in recovery, but times were still tough so no big projects were included for 2010. Despite that, Gaetz did predict there would not be a lowering of taxes.

Two notable projects that had to be put on hold included a library branch in Sardis and the widening of Watson Road.

Jan. 12 The Crown opened its case against Sidney Andrew Robinson, who was accused of murdering Holly McFadden in Harrison Hot Springs.

There was virtually no question Robinson stabbed McFadden on June 29, 2007. The issue for the

court was to determine Robinson’s intent and to what degree he was in control of his actions.

Jan. 15 Sure, it may simply have been a clever marketing ploy by Hasbro, but Mayor Sharon Gaetz hoped Chilliwack residents would go online to vote for the city to be on the Monopoly Canada board game.

Chilliwack was one of 65 cities from across Canada chosen for the contest. The top 20 to receive votes would become property spaces on the Monopoly Canada board.

“We are thrilled that Chilliwack has been chosen as a pre-selected city to vie for a position on the Monopoly board,” said Gaetz.

Jan. 15 Despite the approval of expansion to the Cache Creek landfill, Metro Vancouver indicated a preference to build a waste-to-energy incinerator to burn its garbage.

And Mayor Sharon Gaetz was not impressed.

Mayor Sharon Gaetz and Abbotsford Coun. Patricia Ross have been on the forefront of a growing battle with Metro over the idea of garbage incineration that could affect the Fraser Valley airshed.

“We keep saying the same thing over and over and over again in 100 different ways and always wonder if someone is listening in Metro,” Gaetz said this week.

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Herrling had just pleaded guilty to an assault charge two weeks ago and was to be sentenced in February. He also had convictions for break and enter and possession of firearms contrary to court orders.

Jan. 22 The Chilliwack school district considered taking a two-week spring break next year if a proposed district plan to cut costs went ahead.

The plan to extend spring break was one of several options brought up at district meetings with partner groups like the Chilliwack Teachers’ Association, the Chilliwack Administrators’ Association, CUPE, the District Parent Advisory Council, the city and a number of community service organizations.

Jan. 22 Patty Tyson was at the epicentre of the massive earthquake that ravaged Haiti on Jan. 12, and she saw the horrors of the aftermath.

Tyson was back in Chilliwack at Central elementary at the invitation of Principal Scott Wallace to talk to the children about what she saw and experienced.

Speaking to children as young as kindergarten-age about an earth-

quake that has killed tens of thousands of people needs to be done delicately, something of which both Tyson and Wallace were wellaware.

“My hope is that with this disaster the kids will come away with a global awareness of the plight of Third World children,” she told the Times. “That’s what I want to convey. To really realize that there are so many that have nothing and to be thankful.”

Jan. 22 Shaun Darryl Bolko was sentenced to 138 days in jail in connection to the thefts of a number of brass plates taken from grave markers.

Bolko pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of stolen property under $5,000. In addition to the 138 days he was handed 12 months probation and a $50 victim surcharge per count.

Local police received reports that at least 47 plates were stolen from local cemeteries.

Jan. 26 The committee heading up a $5-million fundraising effort for the redevelopment and expansion of Chilliwack General Hospital got a sneak peak at the latest work on the project.

The Campaign Executive of the Fraser Valley Regional Health Foundation (FVRHCF) toured the new emergency room and core lab-phase two of the eight-phase, $35 million project currently

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They had more than 4,000 signatures on a petition and hoped that a few more would convince local transit authorities to make the connection.

While UFV students are able to use their U-PASS cards for nearly all their public transit needs, the glaring exception is the route between Abbotsford and Chilliwack. This forces those who want to save money, reduce risk and protect air quality by using transit to acquire a vehicle just for the Abbotsford-Chilliwack commute, the SFS said.

Jan. 29 The City of Chilliwack was studying the intersection of Unsworth and Keith Wilson Roads for a possible traffic light installation after shutting down a group of parent volunteers directing traffic there.

Folks around Unsworth elementary had a nickname for Keith Wilson Road. They called the major arterial route running near their school the Keith Wilson Freeway.

“The traffic is just phenomenal,” said Unsworth vice-principal Al Magneison, “and we’re not talking just cars. We’re talking 18-wheelers as well.”

Jan. 29 With Haiti still reeling from the devastating earthquake that hit the Caribbean nation, Fraser Valley musicians rallied to raise funds for the music-loving country.

Several valley entertainers, including Ken McCoy, Appaloosa and the Nikki Werner Band planned to join forces for a special concert and dance dubbed “Country for Haiti.”

The fundraiser was the brainchild of Rob Werner, a fiddler in the Nikki Werner Band.

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their first-ever Fraser Valley Championship.

Facing the Southridge Storm, one of the few teams ranked ahead of G.W. Graham, the Grizzlies recovered from an 11-point deficit at halftime to win 70-59.

At the beginning of the game it appeared as if the Grizzlies were outmatched but soon the G.W. Graham, typically a secondhalf team, found their mark and embarked on a torrid shooting spree in the final two quarters.

As a result of the victory, G.W. Graham was off to the provincial championships in Kamloops.

Feb. 2 Mayor Sharon Gaetz says it would have been illegal and immoral to have accepted offers of free Olympic tickets from two British Columbia Crown corporations in the past month.

Gaetz turned down offers of tickets from the B.C. Lottery Corporation and the B.C. Transmission Corporation.

She said accepting the tickets would have contravened the B.C. Community Charter, which states that council members must not accept gifts connected with their officeholding duties.

“In my opinion there is no other stand I could have taken. I had full knowledge that it would be illegal and immoral to do so,” said Gaetz.

Feb. 2 As many as 70 school district jobs were on the line as the district looked for ways to address a projected $4.7 million shortfall announced at its first public budget forum.

While the district didn’t plan to work out staffing estimates until after March, when it would find out its 2010-11 operating grant, CUPE and the CTA had been told that an estimated 70 positions may have to be cut across the district.

Feb. 5 A Chilliwack faced charges in connection with a violent sexual assault on a prostitute at Cultus Lake.

Brian Arthur Racher, 31, of Chilliwack was charged with aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault with a weapon, forcible confinement and assault with a weapon.

Police say a man picked up a 19year-old prostitute in downtown Chilliwack and drove to a remote area in Cultus to have sex.

The man became angry, hit the woman in the head with a wrench and showed a knife. (See page 1 story.)

Feb. 5 The Chilliwack Bruins came out snarling at Prospera Centre, scoring three goals in the first six minutes and demolishing the Lethbridge Hurricanes 9-2.

Ryan Howse and Mitch Topping each scored a pair of goals and Tim Traber added three assists as the Bruins rolled over the sadsack Hurricanes, who had lost five

Dorothy Kostrzewa received the Olympic Flame during its parade down Yale Road into Chilliwack. straight games.

With the win, Chilliwack moved into a three-way tie for sixth place in the Western Conference with the Kelowna Rockets and Kamloops Blazers.

Feb. 9 The Olympic torch received a rousing welcome Sunday as the flame made its way through Chilliwack.

Upwards of 10,000 people packed the Prospera Centre parking lot and thousands more lined the torch route as more than three dozen bearers carried the flame on horseback, motorcycle and foot.

The celebration culminated with Myles Mitchell lighting a cauldron to a loud roar from the crowd.

Coun. Pat Clark, who helped organize Chilliwack’s celebrations, said the successful celebration was reward for many months of planning.

“We’re all treasuring that moment. Our reward is seeing how much the people in the crowd enjoyed themselves.”

Feb. 12 The Chilliwack Hospital Auxiliary Thrift Store was picking up the pieces after thieves broke in and ripped a safe out of the wall with the store’s own tools.

The thieves made off with two-

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days worth of receipts, along with the safe. It was the second time in a year that the thrift store had its safe stolen. After last year’s robbery, which store manager Mary Barclay estimated took place in Februrary, the vault was hidden in a back room, behind a cupboard and copious amounts of paperwork.

A police forensic unit was unable to find any fingerprints and, with no witnesses or other evidence, RCMP has wrapped up its investigation of the robbery.

Feb. 16 The provincial government announced that 20 mental health beds would be created at Parkholm Place (former Parkholm Lodge) in Chilliwack as part of the ongoing devolution of Riverview Hospital.

The $2 million project was to involve the renovation of the second floor of Parkholm to accommodate a “20-bed tertiary rehabilitation program.”

“These 20 beds are part of the Riverview Redevelopment Project,” said Sue Melnychuk, clinical director of mental health and addictions for Fraser Health.

“We’ve built and set up 160 to date and so this is finishing our numbers.”

Feb. 19 The Sardis secondary drumline

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created an unmistakable buzz in Whistler, and even grabbed the attention of U.S. vice-president, Joe Biden.

The 35-member drumline started performing at different Olympic venues Feb. 14, and drew a growing wave of media attention.

“People are just loving them,” said director Bruno Gagnon.

“They’re getting their photos taken everywhere.”

Feb. 19 A man was taken to hospital with minor injuries to his face after a home invasion by two armed men on Elk View Road.

Police said the break-in appeared to be an attempted robbery and said the occupants were not known to their assailants.

The men broke into the second floor unit around 7 p.m. Monday evening and assaulted a man at the residence.

A female occupant was uninjured and the assailants left without stealing anything. Despite using tracker dogs, police were unable to locate the would-be robbers.

Feb. 19 Saturday night was one of the more memorable nights for high school basketball in Chilliwack in recent memory as the G.W. Graham Grizzlies captured

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A massive fire ripped through an abandoned building that used to be used as the sergeant’s mess hall at the former CFB Chilliwack.

Feb 23 The Chilliwack school district announced cuts to at least seven management positions next year in a bid to save almost half a million dollars.

The move was one of several restructuring changes announced at the district’s second public budget forum.

“We said we would start at the top,” said district superintendent Corinne McCabe after announcing the 7.6 full time equivalent (FTE) cuts. “We said we would look at our own work first. The next piece will be to have all our principals in schools look at their staff.”

Feb. 26 Three dogs and a cat were killed in a fire that consumed a twostorey Promontory home.

Upon arrival, crews found heavy fire and smoke coming from the house in the 47000 block of Laughinton Place. The blaze was quickly knocked down but not before the house sustained serious fire and smoke damage. There was also damage to two adjacent adjacent homes.

A woman and her two children were home and suffered smoke inhalation and minor burns, according to assistant fire chief Ian Josephson.

Feb. 26 The Cultus Lake Park Board’s meeting room was full and overflowing with dozens of seasonal campers from Sunnyside Campground who came to express anger over rate increases for the coming season.

“Everybody is here because we are all upset,” said Lesley Davis, the one Sunnyside camper officially on the agenda as a delegation before the board. “If we had been forewarned it wouldn’t be so hard on everybody.”

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Gropper backed Fraser Health’s permanent injunction to stop Alice Jongerden and Home on the Range dairy from distributing raw milk for human consumption.

The case dated back to the fall of 2008 when Fraser Health issued a cease and desist order to the farm.

In December 2009, Fraser Health went into the farm’s distribution depots and ordered the farm to stop distributing raw milk for human consumption.

March 2 The Bruins may have been having its most successful season on the ice, but in the stands it was another story.

The four-year-old franchise was drawing an average of 3,213 fans, a drop of 861 from last year. In the previous two years, attendance slipped nearly 30 per cent, leaving Chilliwack near the bottom of the Western Hockey League’s attendance rankings.

To help boost numbers, the team announced that anyone who buys season tickets for the next year would also receive tickets to the team’s remaining regular season and playoff games. They also slashed prices for season tickets in the end zone.

March 5 Residential homeowners faced a 3.95 per cent tax increase, lower than Abbotsford’s 4.5 per cent, Langley’s 4.95 per cent and Mission’s 5.86 per cent, as Chilliwack city council gave first reading to what was called a “status quo” budget.”

While a 3.95-per-cent tax increase is relatively low, Mayor Sharon Gaetz said this year was “very challenging” because of money being paid out for the cultural centre and the Cheam Centre. There is also the $18 million that will eventually go to purchase as many as 42 homes from owners in the Panorama subdivision, where homes sit upon a 4,000-year-old landslide.

The biggest line item every year for the city is policing costs, which are 29 per cent of the budget.

March 5 The Chilliwack Bruins beat the Americans 4-1 to go down in the record books as the most successful Chilliwack team ever.

The Bruins finished the season 3-1 against Tri-City, who were tied for first place in the Western Conference.

The weekend was also a success in the stands, with the Bruins drawing some of their largest crowds of the season. More than 3,700 people attended each game as excitement grew for the playoffs.

The Bruins remained in eighth place in the Western Conference, four points back of Kamloops, on whom they had two games in hand. Eighth place would most

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March 12 Chilliwack’s most vulnerable families were about to be hit hard thanks to cuts announced in the provincial government’s budget, according to a local social services provider.

Chilliwack Community Services (CCS) executive director Dale Cuthbertson said that funding cuts to the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) will have a direct local impact on families in crisis and youth struggling with addictions, among others.

“This will have very real consequences, particularly for children and families already struggling with the day-to-day pressures of living without the supports many of us take for granted,” Cuthbertson said. “An additional complicating factor is that in these tough economic times, the need for our services grows; grows precisely at the time when we’re seeing a reduction in funding.”

March 16 Thousands were expected to descend upon Chilliwack for the first Ritchie Bros. auction.

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Many would come with an eye on some of the 1,600 pieces of equipment and machinery. Others, though, visit simply to take in the high-energy, high-stakes world of auctioneering.

Ritchie Bros. first broke ground on its new location last March.

Since then it has constructed a 28,000-square-foot main auction building featuring two auction theatres with capacity for 9,000 people and another 3,200-squarefoot refurbishment and painting facility. The facility employs 13 fulltime workers.

March 19 The Chilliwack Bruins and the Fraser Valley Health Care Foundation unveiled Chilliwack General Hospital’s new pediatric care unit.

The new Bruins Pediatric Centre was built as part of the hospital’s $35 million expansion. It features several patient rooms and a large reception area.

A large mural of Chilliwack Bruins mascot Bruiser with two children adorns a wall of the clinic. The painting reflects the substantial help given by the Bruins, who have pledged $150,000 and promised to raise

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another $100,000 during a 10-year partnership.

March 23 The man who killed Holly McFadden in her Harrison Hot Springs home in 2007 was acquitted of second-degree murder in Chilliwack Supreme Court.

Instead, Judge Brian Joyce found Sidney Andrew Robinson guilty of manslaughter.

Joyce said a serious motorcycle injury, recent crack cocaine use and inconsistent use of anxiety medication combined to render the Abbotsford man unable to form the intent required for a murder conviction.

The Crown and the defence agreed that Robinson, on the evening of June 29, 2007, stabbed and killed McFadden, a 53-yearold Kwantlen College computer teacher. But it was up to the judge to decide whether the drug-addled, brain-injured Robinson realized the consequences of his actions at the time of the stabbing.

March 23 The province’s highest court sided with the Fraser Health Authority in its bid to shut down a Chilliwack raw milk co-operative.

But the milk continued to flow, to be distributed to shareholders and the battle was far from over.

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Heavyweight Hayes Parshyn flips a tire during the Sardis Strongman Competition in March.

March 26 The Chilliwack Board of Education approved an extended two-week break, despite hearing B.C.’s representative for children and youth speak against such a move last December.

The board passed the alternate calendar by a narrow three-to-two margin at the latest board meeting.

Although a longer break would save the district an estimated $200,000 in costs including staff replacement, transportation, maintenance and utilities, trustees Heather Maahs and Martha Wiens voted against it.

March 30 The special prosecutor in charge of the investigation into land deals undertaken by Chilliwack MLA John Les when he was mayor of the city finally received an RCMP report on the matter.

In June 2007, Vancouver lawyer Robin McFee was appointed as special prosecutor to investigate a number of land transactions Les was involved in between 1987 and 1999, but it wasn’t until 2008 that the investigation became public.

McFee said the police had submitted a “lengthy report on the Chilliwack real estate dealings that started this adventure.”

March 30 B.C. Environment Minister Barry Penner was hoping to spark a little romance with his wife during a candlelit dinner during Earth Hour. Instead, he accidentally set his cat on fire. Penner, who had been urging British Columbians to forgo electricity during the annual conservation event, took his own advice and lit numerous candles for the night.

“We actually enjoyed a very romantic candlelit dinner that was only interrupted when our cat set himself on fire by brushing up against the flame, which caused some excitement,” Penner told reporters.

The cat wasn’t hurt.

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he biggest buzz so far in the B.C. Liberal leadership race was generated by Mike de Jong, MLA for Abbotsford West.

Mike raised more than a few eyebrows when he suggested lowering the voting age from 18 to 16.

Now, I like Mike and wish him well in the leadership contest. But let’s all hope this proposal never sees the light of day.

It was bad enough when we gave federal inmates the right to vote.

And now this? God help us.

Forty years ago I might have said otherwise. In 1971 almost a quarter of youth aged 15 to 19 were fulltime members of the work force.

Today it stands around six per cent.

Why on Earth would we want to let these freeloaders have a vote?

Today’s youth unabashedly confide entry-level jobs aren’t good enough for them and removing one’s piercings or shaving off the Mohawk for a job interview would be a betrayal of their individuality. Yeah, right. Go eat some more Doritos and download another Justin Bieber track.

Not too long ago, it was quite common for 16-year-olds to be working full-time helping support their family. The archives are full of stories of youth that lied about their age so they could join the military and defend their country.

Today, a young man typically spends his waking hours

JOHN MARTIN

Crime Matters in his mom’s basement playing video games and Facebooking his “friends.” “Hey Mom, I can’t find my shoes—where’d you put them?”

Mike de Jong correctly notes that youth voting participation is dismal and wants them to be more involved with the political process.

To this I would ask, “why?” Even the few youth that are genuinely politically engaged consistently get it wrong. Media outlets typically run “youth polls” during elections to see what kind of parliament we’d end up with if the 15- to 25-yearolds could decide the outcome.

Time and time again the results show a Green Party Prime Minister and an NDP opposition.

Think for a moment what your pay stub would look like under that scenario. Come to think of it, “what pay stub?”

Time and time again we’re reminded that anyone under 18 is too young and immature to know right from wrong so we can’t hold them responsible for their criminal activity. But we should let them influence public policy at each and

every level?

Hell, we buckled under and gave 16-year-olds the right to drive and we can all see how swell that worked out. Have we learned nothing?

No Mike, let’s talk about raising the voting age. Thirty would be ideal but I could live with 27. While we’re at it, I’d add that any person of any age living with their parents, except in health care circumstances of course, should be prohibited from having a vote at all.

It used to be a person became an adult at no later than 19 and made his own way in the world. Now we have 35-year-olds living with their mom and not feeling the least bit ashamed about it. And unbelievably, some of them even have a girlfriend.

I can’t vote in the Liberal leadership contest because I don’t have a membership. That seems about right. So why do we want to let people who have yet to join society as gainfully-employed, taxpaying, contributors have a say in how things are run?

Let 16-year-olds vote? No way.

So many gadgets. So few brains ◗ John Martin is a criminologist at the University of the FraserValley.

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t’s that time of year when curmudgeons around the world glower and say, “Thank God that year’s over.”

We here at the Times are more positive than that. So as we wrap up this year, it’s worth taking a look at all the awful things that didn’t happen in 2010.

Let’s start big.

The Earth and the oceans of lava beneath us, for all their unpredictable nature, was remarkably kind.

Mount Baker didn’t explode.

There was no big earthquake that rattled the foundations of our schools and sent kids scurrying under their desks.

And no earthquake triggered a huge landslide that wiped out homes, killed hundreds and flooded the valley. So thank you Earth and may you be as friendly in 2011.

The weather was also less-thanhorrendous.

There were no debilitating snow storms and while it was hot this summer, it wasn’t so hot as to spark a hell-on-Earth firestorm in the forests surrounding Chilliwack.

That also would have been a bummer.

Despite the heat, our taps rarely lacked for drinking water, which is more than much of the world can say. And for those who were under boil water advisories, well, they still had power to boil their water.

In the gritty word of politics, neither Chilliwack’s mayor, nor its council, nor its two provincial representatives, nor its federal MP, were charged with a crime.

Things, thus, seem to be getting better.

Chilliwack still is one of the most “crimeridden” cities in the country, according to Maclean’s magazine, but we’ve actually passed three other communities. We’re ninth worst, which is 33 per cent better than a year ago.

What else?

Glad you asked.

No asteroid hit earth. The seas did not flood. The H1N1 virus was not the second coming of the black plague. Robots didn’t go all Terminator on us. The Terminator didn’t go all Terminator on us. George W. Bush is not president of the United States. Clifford Olson was not released from jail. Not all newspapers went out of business. Barry Penner’s cat did not die during Earth Hour.

So, before you get down about 2011, just imagine all the bad things that won’t happen next year.

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Certainly one who cannot sleep properly from excessive use can go into fits or rages because their biological clock is not in proper rhythm, and can also experience drug-induced hallucinations. Continuous use can increase male users’ risks of contracting testicular cancer. A number of these activists enjoy citing propaganda that this is a “safe drug,” however it remains a dangerous drug nonetheless, even if its health risks are not as immediately dangerous as others.

In conclusion, thank you for looking into this issue Mayor Gaetz. It seems like the city will take a principled stand on this issue, and I wish them luck in dealing with all the crazy activists who will attempt to prevent this. The best thing to do is to ignore the likes of Jacob Hunter; they are national disgraces with no sense of honour or integrity.

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The man rolled and smoked this drug in the Prime Minister’s Calgary constituency office. They lack class and have no shame.

Sheldon Starrett Chilliwack

Too many folks enjoying pot Editor: All we hear is marijuana this, marijuana that and marijuana this again and marijuana that maybe.

The mayor stands up and says she wants to eliminate marijuana. That is not going to happen, with one out of every five Chilliwack citizens smoking the stuff.

Chilliwack, instead of wasting money trying to stop marijuana, instead get on board and become a licensed marijuana supplier for the U.S. medical marijuana clinics and the Canadian medical marijuana

patients.

What better way to stop organized crime, than to take away their business.

Michael Hodge Chilliwack

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We at the Hope & Area Transition Society wanted to say thank you to these amazing people who care, are open and willing to help and are invaluable in our communities. To say “Thank you” for the wonderful way we were treated does not seem to be enough.

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Editor: I, for one, am glad to see Mayor Sharon Gaetz and council considering the safety to the public by considering zoning bylaws to restrict the growth of cannabis in Chilliwack.

The City of Chilliwack should not have to deal with the burden such large scale operations have on electricity, but also the limited freshwater supply that is unique to Chilliwack.

Though there are many concerns ranging from the possibility of fire, to theft and violence being caused.

Many of the usual suspects of whiny “marijuana activism” such as one Jacob Hunter and various others have come out of the potwork to condemn this move because it does not sit well with their personal agenda.

The only medicinal use I think it has an effective response on is one to do with blindness, otherwise people primarily use it as a means to get high to escape pain. There are nowadays a number of other available painkillers that are perfectly legal and can do that job.

They also do not punish innocent people who do not want to smell that horrible smell.

This drug can have some serious impacts on any person’s life, just as with any other illegal substance.

Common use of this drug can cause an addiction and mess up users’ daily lives.

A10 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2010 CHILLIWACK TIMES

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After breaking free of the man’s grasp, the girl ran to a nearby home and called police.

Dunlop said that there was still no evidence to suggest any of the recent attempted abductions were linked.

April 2 Strathcona elementary students and parents were shaken after a frightening abduction attempt of an 11-year-old girl Wednesday afternoon.

With school out early, the girl was walking home to school in the Fairview Road area of Fairfield Island at about 1:10 p.m. when a man approached her from behind, grabbed her arm and said, “shut up and don’t move.”

The man was wearing a Halloween mask in the guise of an old man with a large nose.

Fortunately, the girl was able to shake loose of the man and run home, where she called a friend’s parents.

April 6 Chilliwack photographer Rick Collins followed the Olympic flame through more than 1,000 Canadian communities from the far North to the Maritimes and back through the Prairie Provinces for a series of books.

Collins spent 149 days shooting roughly 120,000 photos of almost every aspect of the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games for three official limited-edition commemorative books.

The flame’s entire cross-country tour is captured in A Path of Northern Lights: The Story of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Torch Relay.

April 9 HST canvassers were out knocking on doors in Chilliwack gathering signatures for Bill Vander Zalm’s Fight HST Citizen Initiative petition.

Former B.C. Conservative party candidate Ben Besler was the Fight HST regional organizer for the southwest Coast-Valley, which includes Chilliwack, and he was been frantically trying to get his captains and canvassers organized and get the petitions ready.

The campaign officially kicked off April 6 and registered canvassers had 90 days to collect the signatures of 10 per cent of registered voters in each of the province’s 85 electoral districts.

Locally that meant about 3,600 signatures in the Chilliwack riding and 3,300 in Chilliwack-Hope.

April 13 Chilliwack fitness fanatics would soon get a look at the redeveloped, renamed and rejuvenated Cheam

April 27 Long in a state of disrepair, the prominent house on Vedder Road on the Sto:lo Nation’s Coqualeetza Site was demolished.

Built in 1894, the “Big House,” as it is referred by the Coqualeetza Cultural Education Centre’s website, was originally constructed for the principal of the Coqualeetza residential school attended by First Nations from all over B.C. between 1886 and 1939.

A crew member gives extras direction as film crews took over downtown Chilliwack for the filming of Eureka.

Leisure Centre.

City facilities manager Ryan Mulligan and centre general manager Jaimee Stokes gave Mayor Sharon Gaetz and members of the media an early look at the $9 million centre, which boasts a rebuilt pool and a state-of-the-art exercise facility.

The six-lane, 25-metre lap pool replaces the one at the old facility.

There is a shallow leisure pool that features fountains, and a winding river run.

In the new weight room, more than $200,000 of new equipment was installed.

April 16 The City of Chilliwack showed of its vision for the next 30 years downtown at an open house.

The overall vision in the Downtown Land Use and Development Plan (DLUDP) is idyllic and posits a safe, vibrant, pedestrian-focused heart of the city.

But some people who actually live in the heart of the city expressed some cynicism about how such a plan will be implemented.

The downtown area—designated as Prospera Centre and the Landing to the west, Broadway Street to the east, the CN rail line and Bernard Avenue to the south, and Lewis, Bonny and Portage avenues to the north—had 10,432

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people living in 5,355 dwellings in 2007, according to numbers outlined in the plan. Over the next 30 years those numbers are projected to more than double to 23,552 people in 13,425 dwellings.

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Based on photographs of Sardis GSA members, the images are stylized silhouettes of hugging couples. The boys’ skin is hot pink, the girls’ is shades of blue.

April 16 School board trustees killed a motion to do away with the $10,000 party that annually honours retiring school district employees.

For 20 years, retiring administrators, teachers and support staff were feted by the board at a June party at Minter Gardens with speeches and gifts of engraved watches and wall clocks.

Trustee Heather Maahs introduced a motion to scrap the expense and look for a cost-free alternative as a way to address the district’s budget shortfall.

John-Henry Harter said saving $10,000 on the backs of retiring employees was not a good idea.

April 23 Police arrested a 19-year-old man who they say decked his car out with police lights and a siren, pulled over a female driver and impersonated a police officer late on Vedder Road.

After being asked if she had been drinking and of her destination, the woman was allowed to proceed. But she grew suspicious after noticing that the supposed cop didn’t carry any police equipment, although he did attempt to dress like a plain-clothes officer.

The woman called Chilliwack RCMP later that night and police arrested a suspect in the 45600 block of Pioneer Road. Police also seized a “smaller import-type” car equipped with lights and a siren.

April 23 Brittany Sandve, Sardis secondary’s Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) president, created posters intended to raise awareness about sexual orientation and homophobia at the school.

There were five in all depicting each of the LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning) identities.

April 27 For the third time in just over a month, and the fifth time already this year, a man has tried to abduct a girl.

The latest incident took place Saturday afternoon near the Vedder River Bridge. A 17-year-old girl was walking alone south of the bridge at about 2 p.m. when a man grabbed her from behind.

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Nurse Brent Woodley tests John Les’s vision during a demonstration of CGH’s new Telestroke technology.

April 30 At least one property co-owned by Chilliwack MLA and former mayor John Les was among 66 parcels subdivided improperly over the last two decades, according to an Agricultural Land Commission (ALC).

Nearly one-third of all boundary adjustment subdivisons made in the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) in Chilliwack between 1991 and 2009 were called “inconsistent with the regulations.”

One of those properties is 10740 Rosebank Place, which was involved in a boundary adjustment subdivision that “created rural residential parcels at the expense of the farm parcel.”

Mayor Sharon Gaetz said she welcomed the ALC report and looked forward to meeting with the commission to discuss it.

Gaetz also said that the vast majority of the inconsistencies outlined by the ALC report were done in a “very different time.”

April 30 Cultus Lake won’t become part of the City of Chilliwack any time soon as the committee tasked with addressing governance decided not to hold a referendum and was disbanded.

The committee’s task was to look at the issue of amalgamation of Cultus Lake with Chilliwack as that was the only option for future Cultus governance the provincial government would support.

But amalgamation would only have been possible if the interested parties, which include the Soowahlie band, agreed to a referendum, something Soowahlie Chief Otis Jasper said they do not support given ongoing land claims.

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Bruins Game Schedule Tuesday, Dec. 28 Chilliwack @ Prince George 7 p.m.

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Auerbach keeps his team sharp

BY TYLER OLSEN tolsen@chilliwacktimes.com

M

att Auerbach’s business card reads “athletic trainer/ equipment manager,” but you might as well call him the Chilliwack Bruins’ chief mechanic.

Indeed, from a certain angle, Auerbach’s job looks a lot like that of a mechanic and pit crew boss for a stock car, only with skates in the place of tires.

The analogy isn’t perfect—most gearheads don’t spend an hour each day sewing. But it gets to the core of Auerbach’s duties with the club; when something goes wrong on the ice—a stick breaks, a nose bleeds, a player catches an edge—it falls to Auerbach to fix the problem fast and get the player back out on the ice. And it’s also his responsibility to make sure that the players— think of them as the drivers—enter a game confident that their equipment and bodies won’t fail when a goalie is pulled, an opponent dekes right, or the gloves are dropped.

For Auerbach, every day is different, but let’s consider his duties for a typical Saturday evening game in which the Bruins played the previous night.

Lives in two worlds As crowds pour out of Prospera Centre on Friday night, Auerbach goes to work sharpening a dozenodd skates. Most players get their skates sharpened immediately following a game. They’ll typically break in the edge during the next day’s pregame skate, and then use it

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Trainer Matt Auerbach is responsible for keeping the Chilliwack Bruins—and their hockey gear—in tip-top shape. for real the following evening.

Auerbach first learned how to sharpen a skate a decade ago during his first equipment stint with the Vernon Vipers in the BCHL. Since then, he’s been refining his technique.

“Skate sharpening is like an art.

It’s really technical,” says Auerbach.

“Throughout the years my technique has changed.”

Auerbach has a degree in sports management from Mount Royal University, but there’s no diploma for learning how to properly sharpen a skate. Rather, the “art”

Auerbach speaks of is one of trial and error.

“If you make a mistake, you don’t make that mistake again.”

While Auerbach sharpens skates, assistant Mark Lillicrap does the laundry, both for the Bruins and for their opponents. After a couple hours Auerbach goes home to his wife and young daughter. But early the next morning, he’s back at the arena. It’s game day and he needs to prep the dressing room and lay out the player’s athletic underwear.

After the players arrive, Auerbach’s priorities switch to the

medical side of his job. He’ll tape shoulders, work out kinks and make sure joints, muscles and bones are going to stand up to the demands of a Western Hockey League game.

“Those two worlds—my equipment world and my medical world—can’t criss-cross,” he notes. For that, he relies on Lillicrap and, on game days, three or four other sets of eyes and ears to make sure everything goes smoothly. Benches and penalty boxes need to be stocked, laundry needs to be rewashed, and sticks

need to be laid out.

Speaking of sticks, each player’s stick is unique, with its own make, flex, weight, grip and blade pattern.

Auerbach keeps meticulous track of just how fast certain players go through their woodwork; if a player uses 15 sticks on average during a year, he makes sure he has 20 in stock.

Auerbach will head home for a few hours before a game to see his family, whose support is key, he says.

By the late afternoon, though, he’s back at the rink and making sure everything goes as it should in the lead up to game time.

When the puck drops, Auerbach’s senses come alive but he is careful to keep his emotions in check.

“I can’t get involved in things because if I get involved in the game, that’s when your emotions takeover and you have to be ready for everything,” he said.

Instead, Auerbach is scanning the bench and the ice, looking for anything that isn’t right. He’s watching for skates slipping and for players grimacing, and his ears are on alert for the tell-tale sound of a shattering stick.

If all goes to plan, Auerbach will get no credit from the public for the win. And that night, if it’s a home game, the skate sharpening, laundry and other duties will begin anew.

It’s a job that Auerbach would never trade in though.

“I love it,” he says, even the sewing. But it’s the camraderie with the players that he points to as the main reason he likes coming to the rink.

“They take care of me, I take care of them,” he said.

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Spotlight shines on mould

BY PAUL J. HENDERSON phenderson@chilliwacktimes.com

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andlords in Chilliwack have a list of new worries on their hands that runs from from Alternaria to Zygomycetes.

Mould in rental properties—usually the result of marijuana grow operations—is increasingly seen as a maintenance problem in some rental properties in the city.

City council repealed its building maintenance and occupancy standards bylaw at the Dec. 20 meeting and replaced it with one that included: a broader interpretation of definitions, the ability to force landlords to address mould issues; and the ability to carry out remediation of hazardous conditions and OFFENDER, from page 1 apologizing to the woman.

“Oh G o d , w h a t d i d I d o ? ,” Ra c h e r asked.”Oh my God, I’ve lost my mind. . . .

What can I do? What can I give you so you won’t f---ing put me in jail. Oh my God, I’m a monster. I lost my f---ing mind, I’m sorry.

Dear God, you know me like 99 per cent of the time I’m a nice guy, right? I don’t know what happened to me. I’m sorry with all my f---ing heart. I’m sorry.”

But in his reasons for his decision, Joyce said the assault was sexual in nature.

“In my view, the defence submission would involve my taking too narrow a view of what occurred here,” said Joyce. “I view the attack on the complainant began immediately after she denied her consent to the sexual activity

force the owner to pay for it.

In its report to council, staff said the old bylaw did not address deficiencies being found by inspectors. “[S]taff felt that a majority of the problem properties are rental properties which are not being adequately managed by negligent, or non-resident, property owners,” the staff report said.

Coun. Chuck Stam addressed the bylaw at the meeting, and suggested the dollar figure for fines might be excessive.

“An owner could be essentially levied with a $50,000 fine if there is a poorly maintained home,” Stam told the Times after the meeting.

Most of the fines are the same as in the old bylaw.

Said he was sorry in which the accused wanted to engage as one continuous assault, all of which took place in a sexual context.

He continued: “Clearly, in my view, wrapping the rope around the complainant’s naked body without her consent was a violation of her sexual integrity. Although the accused seemed to briefly snap out of it, he very quickly resumed his attempts to bind the complainant with the rope using even more force.

W h i l e Ra c h e r w a s f o u n d g u i l t y o f aggravated sexual assault and sexual assault with a weapon, he was acquitted of forcible confinement.

Racher will be sentenced in the new year.

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The Optimists’ Club of Chilliwack hosts a free skate and skate rental on Dec. 31 from 1 to 3 p.m. at Prospera Centre. Donations for the food bank are encouraged.

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Join the Chilliwack German Canadian Club for a New Years Dance Dec. 31 at the club, at 45910 Alexcander Ave. Dance starts at 8 p.m. with music by the Rheinlaender. Pre-sold tickets only.

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nother year is in the archives and what a wild ride 2010 has been.

Chilliwack saw record-breaking heat in the summer, a roller coaster unemployment rate and a real estate market that was hard to figure out.

New facilities and businesses opened with great fanfare. Others shuttered their doors and quietly moved on.

This is my annual top 10 list of stories for the year in Chilliwack, mostly related to municipal affairs. Ten is a small number, so I didn’t include that record opium bust, bears killed in Sardis, the spat between veterans and Strahl, the opening of the Sto:lo Resource Centre, cabinet shuffles or the political grandstanding of a pair of school trustees who made sure this was the Christmas season, not the holiday season.

All 10 of these stories are ongoing and will have follow-ups in 2011.

So, not including any crime, sports or school district stories, here is, in my humble opinion, what mattered most over the last 12 months: 10 - Up and down in downtown Is there slow and steady improvement underway downtown or are the proverbial deck chairs being rearranged on the Titanic?

I have no idea. In April the city of Chilliwack unveiled its vision for downtown for the next 30 years.

Some loved it. Some loathed it.

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Simply A Musing The reality? On Mill Street we saw Evangeline’s close, then Gringo’s open in its place and, since then, also close. The Paramount closed.

Miss Muffet’s toy shop moved to Abbotsford. But other downtown stalwarts continue and seem to be doing just fine: The Bookman, Graham’s Gifts, Objekts, Decades.

As we enter 2011, the situation downtown is no better or worse than it was as we entered 2010.

For that reason I’d say the ups and downs in downtown Chilliwack in 2010 is a top story that is really no story at all.

9 - Sockeye socking them in For pure national and international interest, the massive return of sockeye salmon to the rivers around Chilliwack—particularly the Fraser, of course—ranks as a really big deal.

Anglers were literally shoulder to shoulder along the bars of the Fraser River in Chilliwack pulling out fish after fish after fish.

Even for us non-anglers the sockeye bounty meant we had access to that most delicious of fish as legal

sales from local Sto:lo fishermen abounded around town.

But the story wasn’t all good as one fisherman drowned on the Fraser and another drowned on the Chilliwack.

The big return also did nothing to explain the abysmal return of 2009, something still causing widespread wringing of hands.

8 - Our new cultch The Chilliwack Cultural Centre opened its doors to much fanfare, finally positioning the city as a destination for many performances that would have otherwise given the city a pass.

Whether or not Chilliwack residents will truly support the $22 million facility is yet to be determined, but so far there have been mostly good reviews.

There is a financial hurdle for some groups that felt left out of the new facility and even for some that are currently in the centre.

For all concerned I just hope the cultural centre story continues to be a positive one in 2011.

7 - The Empress has no clothes In March, the city of Chilliwack’s economic development arm, CEPCO, purchased the dilapidated Empress Hotel from Slipstream Developments for $1.3 million.

Then, in the fall, the wrecking ball came down flattening the historic

building, which was seen by many as a focal point—both negative and positive—of downtown Chilliwack for decades.

This was undeniably an important story, but what the city or a developer does with the property is much more important and is a story that is yet to be told.

I’ll go out on a limb and hazard a guess that 9260 Young road will be an empty lot for all of 2011.

6 - Out with the old, in with the new This is the third time downtown Chilliwack economic development has come up on this list, but the opening of Walmart and Galaxy Cinemas at Eagle Landing certainly had an impact on downtown.

Walmart opened Nov. 12 and Galaxy opened Nov. 19. The effect of the former is hard to pin down but can be seen in reduced traffic at Superstore and the mall. As for the latter, the impact was direct and immediate as the effect of the $7.5-million, 31,000-square-foot state-of-the art movie house ushered in the closure of the iconic downtown Paramount Theatre.

The Paramount closure makes for the loss of two downtown landmarks, but whether this will bode for a positive future in the area is, as I’ve said before, yet to be determined.

5 - Gravel, gravel everywhere.

OK, I know what you’re thinking,

enough with the gravel stories.

But whether the story was about the controversial practice of dredging river bottoms for alleged floodprotection reasons, the issuance of a gravel mine permit in the Chilliwack River Valley despite outrage from valley residents, or the unique proposal currently being considered in Yarrow that would see a conveyor belt system bring gravel down the north face of Vedder Mountain, gravel is a big deal.

The expression “conflict gravel” entered our lexicon this year, and there has been a large amount of conflict in Chilliwack between the aggregate industry and local residents who have stood up in protest.

Gravel may be boring, but stay tuned as this issue will only heat up more in 2011.

4 - Wheels on the bus go nowhere fast If a story’s importance was to be measured by the sheer volume of ink spilled, or words spoken or reports issued, transit would be the number one story of the year.

But through the bluster, paper and analysis, tragically, there has been very little action.

One feasibility study gave a positive report on light rail from Chilliwack to Surrey. A provincial analysis gave it the thumbs down. A young transit rider by the name of Jennifer See TOP 10, Page 21

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Union has caught the spirit and are “So much money has been donated holding fundraising events in support for cancer research but I feel that of the cause. this is something even more special,” Donations to provide books to said Huston. “Donating money to cancer patients will be an ongoing buy copies of this book will give a project even after the Head-shaving tangible gift of hope and inspiration awareness event. To for someone who make a donation to may actually be the Choosing to Smile experiencing what Book Fund, visit any these three ladies Julie’s bucket-list branch of the Envision have gone through.

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Last year the citywide drive brought in 20,000 food items, but the Lions ramped up their efforts this year in response to a 30 per cent jump in food bank use since their last campaign.

May 4 A campaign against a gravel mine in the Chilliwack River Valley created www.stopthegravelpit. com to oppose an application

by Southview Sorting Ltd. for a quarry at a site 25 kilometres up Chilliwack Lake Road.

Among other concerns, opponents claimed there would be an estimated 94 gravel truck passes per day. The Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources estimated it would be more like 12 to 47 trips per day.

FVRD Area E director Dave Lamson said while he was not necessarily in total opposition to the project, he had concerns about habitat and the number of trucks running up and down the road each day.

May 7 Opposition to the provincial government’s harmonized sales tax (HST) was so strong in the two local ridings that volunteers exceeded the number of required signatures on the petition four weeks into the 12-week campaign.

The Fight HST initiative officially kicked off April 6. Canvassers had until July 5 to collect the signatures of 10 per cent of registered voters in each of the province’s 85 electoral districts to force a referendum.

Former B.C. Conservative Party candidate Ben Besler, the Fight HST regional organizer for the ridings of Chilliwack and Chilliwack-Hope, said that they had collected 5,768 signatures or 16 per cent of the electorate in Chilliwack. The threshold was 3,577.

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May 7 In the wake of the Agricultural Land Commission’s (ALC) damning report on improper boundary adjustments in Chilliwack, focus turned to the city’s schools, churches and other institutions with land in, or adjacent to, the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR).

The commission wanted some answers about five schools and Fairfield Island Park where ALC rules were violated. The commission has ordered the city to

May 21 Mayor Sharon Gaetz took off the gloves at Chilliwack city council on Monday and had a few shots for Metro Vancouver’s garbage plans.

Metro staff and politicians were in Abbotsford to present three options on how to deal with their garbage: build an incinerator to burn waste and create energy; ship waste to an incinerator built

by Covanta at Gold River on Vancouver lsland; or continue trucking the waste to a landfill in Cache Creek.

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Five schools, Timothy Christian, Mount Cheam Christian, Chilliwack Christian (now Unity Christian elementary), Unsworth elementary and East Chilliwack elementary, all had boundary adjustments that reduced farm parcels to facilitate the expansion of school property.

May 7 Canfor agreed to sell Uneeda Wood Products, which employs about 100 people in Chilliwack, to the Vanderhoof-based BID Group of Companies. The move came as good news for Uneeda employees, according to general manager Scott Maxwell.

He said it was “business as usual” at the mill, which he said is returning to its roots as an independent mill.

No layoffs were expected, Maxwell said; indeed, the company was hiring.

May 11 The 2009 flood in Greendale was caused by a unique combination of weather events that led to numerous failings in the drainage system, according to a consultant’s report.

“There is no single part of the system that failed; nor single cause to the problem,” the

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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.

The recipe for the 2009 flood: sudden above-zero temperatures greeted by back-to-back recordbreaking days of rain landing on nearly two feet of snow that sat upon ground frozen by unusually cold temperatures in December.

May 18 Chilliwack elementary school teacher Jason Epp was charged with sexually assaulting at least two students.

Epp, a Grade 2 teacher at Sardis elementary school, appeared before a provincial court judge to face two counts each of sexual assault and sexual interference. He was released on bail and ordered not to have contact with children under the age of 16.

May 18 About 10 Chilliwack River Valley residents went to ChilliwackHope MLA Barry Penner’s office to present a petition opposing a gravel mine application.

“We are asking you to place a moratorium on this project until the proper environmental assessments have been completed,” Jennifer Federspiel said to Penner’s staff after presenting the petition with 856 signatures.

Federspiel was accompanied by residents of the valley and said she spoke on behalf of the Chilliwack River Valley Ratepayers Association, the Friends of the Chilliwack River Valley and Ecologic BC. The application by Brent Tolmie and Southview Sorting Ltd. has garnered considerable opposition in the valley by those who are concerned about recreational values as well as truck traffic and environmental damage.

May 21 The Cheam Lions Club is giving itself less than four hours to collect 25,000 food items for the Salvation Army Food Bank this month during the 20th annual Lion Gord Hutton Walk and Knock Food Drive.

An army of 500 volunteers from 32 different groups including churches, schools, cubs, scouts, girl guides and service clubs blitzed neighbourhoods on foot from Greendale to East Chilliwack, knocking on doors and collecting non-perishable

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A couple sat on the Cultus Lake shoreline and watched as a couple of scuba divers emerged from the depths.

May 21 He may be lightning quick on the track, but Unity Christian school track star Travis Vugteveen was taking his time deciding which post-secondary school to endow with his athletic and academic talents.

At the Fraser Valley High School Championships in Abbotsford, Vugteveen blew away the competition in the 800-metre event, setting a Fraser Valley record of 151.50 and falling less than a second short of topping the 26year-old B.C. High School record.

May 28 Attempts by two school trustees to introduce 11th hour changes into next year’s $105 million school district budget were ruled out of order at a school board meeting.

Before the final vote on the budget, Trustee Heather Maahs tried to propose an amendment that would have see nthe district re-evaluate the cost-cutting shuffle of principals and vice-principals planned for next year while Trustee Martha Wiens attempted to propose a change that would have had the district revisit the busing fees parents will have to pay next year.

Board chair Silvia Dyck ruled both amendments out of order because they were not related to specific budget line items.

The budget eventually passed 5-2 with Maahs and Wiens voting against it.

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CFB Chilliwack Historical Society president Jim Harris holds piece of a historic plaque stolen stolen from All Sappers’ Memorial Park.

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Sofi Hindmarch, who completed her Simon Fraser University master’s thesis on barn owl habitat, said Wednesday that people should limit their use of such poisons, try to apply them in closed areas, consider safer alternatives such as old-fashioned traps, and clean up garbage and other attractants that entice rats.

She said barn owls are also at increasing risk from highway development and loss of grass habitat in the Fraser Valley and rural areas of Vancouver Island—and that poison is part of a cumulative problem.

A 2009 Environment Canada study of the livers of 164 barn, barred, and great horned owls from B.C. and Yukon found evidence of at least one anticoagulant rodenticide in 70 per cent

of cases. Of those, more than 41 per cent contained more than one rodenticide, most often the second-generation poisons, brodifacoum and bromadiolone.

Six of the owls—three barred, two barn, and one great horned owl—had died of the poison, which is designed to produce a fatal hemorrhage in rats and other rodents.

Hindmarch said the “sub-lethal” effects of the poison can also contribute to the owls’ demise. “If they are hit by a car, is that because they were hunting and not paying attention because they’d just ingested rat poison?”

Most owls in the study died in rehabilitation centres. Forty-three per cent were from the upper Fraser Valley.

Rodenticides are commonly used to control the proliferation of rats in urban and agricultural areas. The poison is then transferred to non-target species such as owls that devour the rats.

The poison is available in the form of pellets, loose meal, paraffin blocks or packet baits.

Rodents may not die for days, potentially staggering around in open areas where they are easily caught by owls.

In November, the federal Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada rated the barn owl as threatened in southern B.C.

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◗ Opinion TOP 10, from page 15 Bigham did an extensive analysis on Chilliwack’s transit system that was met with a polite nod from the city of Chilliwack.

Transit within Chilliwack and within the region took centre stage on many occasions this past year. But on Jan. 1, 2011 there is one thing that is still the same as on Jan. 1, 2010: Chilliwack transit sucks.

3 - Trashing Metro’s trash plan John Les has had a difficult few years politically, but when he gets a rousing round of applause for a public statement, you know just about everyone in Chilliwack is on the same page.

Metro Vancouver’s relentless push to build a waste-to-energy incinerator to burn its garbage raised the ire of local politicians and residents. “People in the Fraser Valley are not interested in incineration,” Les told Metro politicians in June, essentially summing up the issue that has so angered Mayor Sharon Gaetz and others.

This fight is far from over.

2 - Clearing and not cleared On June 29, we were finally able to print the headline we had told John Les we might one day: “Cloud lifted from Les.” Special prosecutor Robin McFee cleared the Chilliwack MLA of criminal wrongdoing in relation to land deals from when he was mayor. But the real story was that former city director of development and approving officer Grant Sanborn faced three charges of breach of trust. And while Les was cleared by McFee, his connection to this story has not been severed.

Les faced no criminal charges, but McFee did find that there were “improper municipal practices within the city of Chilliwack during Mr. Les’ tenure as mayor,” and that “there was a “pro-development/can do” culture fostered at city hall.

Oh yeah, and two of the charges Sanborn faces related to Les’s Rosebank Place development.

Will Sanborn open up and directly or indirectly tarnish any public figures at his trial? We won’t know in 2011 as his trial isn’t set to begin until 2012.

1 - Damning ALC report Not unrelated to my number two pick, I’m calling the Agricultural Land Commission’s damning report on how Chilliwack city hall behaved with regard to farmland subdivisions as the number one story of 2010.

This report is essentially the culmination of a multi-decade-long spat between the city of Chilliwack and the ALC. The Agricultural Land Reserve is an integral part of the protection of farmland in British Columbia. Our province is arguably the most sought after place to be in Canada; the most photographed, the most temperate, the most mountainous, the most beautiful. And within this vast province most people live in the tract of land between Hope and Vancouver.

Chilliwack sits in the best farmland near the biggest population with the cheapest real estate in the most beautiful location. Therefore, and bear with me, Chilliwack sits poised in a place where, over the coming decades, people will want to live. And if our farmland is not protected then we will lose what is most important.

Yet our municipal government has for years had a serious antipathy to the ALR and the ALC, so much so that in 1994 a city policy was singularly designed to violate ALC regulations at every turn.

This policy and this attitude has led to Les’s troubles and Sanborn’s criminal charges.

For all of those reasons, the April ALC report so critical of the city’s behaviour, coupled with the absolute lack of contrition from past or current civic politicians, makes this the most important story of 2010.

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officer Peter Monteith was not only the highest paid public servant in the city, but he was the 22nd highest paid local government employee out of 5,293 in the province.

Monteith’s $215,121 was $57,095 more than the second closest employee, Chris Crosman, general manager of operational services.

June 1 Canvassers for the anti-HST petition in the Chilliwack riding had, as of May 24, 7,119 signatures or nearly 20 per cent of registered voters. In Chilliwack-Hope they had 7,566 HST haters signed up, amounting to 23.5 per cent of the electorate.

But when it came to some of Chilliwack’s largest employers and, arguably, the community’s heart of agriculture, the HST couldn’t come soon enough.

“We are all consumers so we all pay taxes, whether it’s PST or GST and now the HST,” said Stan Vander Waal, owner of Rainbow Greenhouses, the largest employer in the agriculture sector in Chilliwack. “The difference now is the playing field has been levelled by creating the HST.” June 1 A missing Chilliwack man’s father “feared the worst” after police connected a burned out vehicle to Michael Coutinho, who had been missing since May 8.

Michael Coutinho was last seen in the Yarrow area driving a white 2005 PT Cruiser on Saturday, May 8. Later that day, a car was discovered burned just south of Yarrow in the Belrose Drive/Old Yale Road area near the Abbotsford/Chilliwack border.

June 4 Zachary Clay’s perfect cartwheels at preschool set him apart when he was just three years old.

His teachers told his parents he should probably go into gymnastics and it turns out they were right as the 14-year-old Chilliwack athlete, who competes for Twisters Gymnastics Club in Abbotsford, won all-around gold in the tyro (age 13 to 15) category at the Canadian National Gymnastics Championships in Kamloops.

Clay earned the all-around title by winning gold on vault, parallel bars and pommel horse, silver on floor, and by placing fourth on the horizontal bar and rings.

June 4 Nearly a year after Angela Crossman’s body was found beside an Agassiz forestry road, police arrested and charged her roommate with first degree murder.

Police arrested 32-year-old Ian

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Participants in the Memorial Ride for the Fallen laid wreaths at the cenotaph.

Michael Hewitt, of Abbotsford.

RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Dale Carr, with the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, said that Hewitt was an early suspect.

Carr credited Chehalis Chief Willie Charlie with connecting investigators to local witnesses and helping police understand the area where Crossman was found.

June 8 District of Kent residents received a tax hike this year in part thanks to their incarcerated neighbours.

A recount of the 2006 census found 470 extra residents— although no new dwellings—and this put Kent over the critical 5,000-population threshold at which policing costs shift.

But those “residents” are in the two federal prisons, Kent and Mountain, so they don’t add a lot to the community, according to Mayor Lorne Fisher.

In B.C., communities under 5,000 pay for 15 per cent of policing costs while those over 5,000 pay 70 per cent.

June 8 A sexual assault charge against the chief of a local First Nations band led to suspension from the board of directors at the Sto:lo Nation.

Hereditary Chief Jimmy George,

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of the Aitchelitz band, was charged with one count of sexual interference of a person under the age of 16.

The alleged incident dated from between March 1 and March 24 of 2010.

dirt park was being levelled.

Kirtus DeFehr said lots of kids will be disappointed and that he rode there two or three times a week.

“This really sucks,” he said.

June 11 Long the bane of some regular trail users—and surely the source of shock and surprise for new ones—the near-daily sound from the firearms range at the RCMP’s Pacific Regional Training Centre (PRTC) was getting worse and the City of Chilliwack finally tried to address the matter.

Not only was the range being used almost every day, but Mayor Sharon Gaetz said the RCMP were using a new firearm that has a higher pitch to it so that it can be heard all over the Vedder Crossing area into south Sardis.

“Obviously it is protecting public safety but obviously it is a nuisance,” she said.

June 18 Metro Vancouver politicians and bureaucrats faced a cold reception from Chilliwack residents and Fraser Valley politicians at the consultation meeting into Metro’s draft waste management plan.

“You brought the wrong dog and pony show,” Mayor Sharon Gaetz said to the panel, which included Delta mayor and Metro Chair Lois Jackson, and Port Coquitlam mayor and waste management committee chair Greg Moore.

Gaetz added that even though Metro was involved in the successful fight against the SE2 power project five years ago, things have changed and they had lost credibility.

June 11 Some local mountain bikers were in for a shock after city staff flattened a series of dirt jumps on city land because of liability issues.

The decision to take down the so-called westside jumps or the Sardis humps on Sheffield Way was made on a Monday by city council and on Tuesday, the once-popular

June 22 The number of City of Chilliwack employees making six-figure salaries rose 75 per cent in just one year—from 12 in 2007 to 21 in 2008—according to a Vancouver Sun database that revealed the pay of 48,000 public-sector employees in B.C. Chilliwack’s chief administrative

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Chilliwack education icon G.W. Graham died in June. In this photo, he speaks at the opening of the school named after him in 2006.

June 25 The Chilliwack District Parent Advisory Council (DPAC) blasted school trustees this week for their conduct during the last board of education meeting of the year.

In an e-mail to trustees Wednesday, DPAC president Kirsten Brandreth said she was “extremely disappointed” at how the meeting ended.

She lambasted trustees for not voting to extend the meeting long enough to complete the agenda or allow for public participation.

She also criticized some trustees for their conduct during the rest of the year, saying their behaviour toward fellow trustees was often disrespectful.

June 25 Chilliwack band Pardon My Striptease made the top 20 in 99.3 The Fox Vancouver’s Seeds competition.

Pardon My Striptease is made up of Andrew Putt, Erron Sweeney, Adam Coleman and Dylan Weightman, all local boys.

Vancouver radio station The Fox is looking for the best independent music talent in B.C. The band made the top 50 in the contest.

Online fan voting to decide on the final 20 bands finished June 6 and the local boys made it.

June 29 Chilliwack MLA John Les was cleared of wrongdoing in relation to land deals from when he was mayor, the criminal justice branch announced.

But special prosecutor Robin McFee approved three charges of breach of trust by a public officer against the city’s former director of development and approving officer Grant Sanborn.

Les became the subject of an RCMP investigation in 2007 for allegedly benefitting from deals when he was mayor.

McFee concluded the “available evidence does not meet the threshold of a substantial likelihood that Mr. Les would be convicted of the offence of breach of trust by a public officer.”

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Veterans and their supporters remembered the fallen on the 66th anniversary of D-Day at a wreath-laying ceremony at Vedder View Gardens

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Report finds local court woefully short on judges crisis facing the Provincial Court of B.C., which handles more than 90 per cent of criminal cases in the province. Over the he B.C. Provincial Court has found past year, numerous cases around the itself guilty of having too few judges, province, ranging from impaired driving to drug dealing, have been tossed out of court according to a new report.

The report, which says that thousands because of delays of up to two years to get to of criminal cases in B.C. are at risk of being trial.

The B.C. Provincial Court is the only thrown out of court because of unreasonable delays due to a shortage of Provincial Court Provincial Court in Canada with fewer judges today than there were in judges, singles out the 2005, says the report. As C h i l l i w a c k / Ab b o t s f o rd of Nov. 30, the Provincial judicial district as one of the “The cost of operating Cour t had 130 judges, eight most pressing judicial one judge in a courtcompared with 143 judges vacancies. room, for one year, is five years ago.

Those vacancies, Over the same time however, could be filled approximately $1.6 period, the report found, within the court’s existing million when you the ranks of police officers budget according to Justice and Crown prosecutors in Delayed: A Report of the include the support B.C. have increased, and Provincial Court of British staff.” cases have been increasing Columbia Concerning in length and complexity.

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Barry Penner Newly appointed The report found that, as Attor ney-General, and of March 31, 16,000 adult Chilliwack-Fraser River criminal cases had been pending for more than six months. Of those, ML A, Barr y Penner pointed out five 7,000 were more than one year old, while Provincial Court judges have been appointed since the report was completed in September 2,000 were more than 18 months old.

“It is reasonable to conclude that many of and another is expected to come on board the 2,000 cases that will be over 18 months at by the year’s end. However, five judges are the time of trial are at risk of being stayed,” expected to retire in 2011.

Penner said he is “not disagreeing that says the Sept. 14 report which was forwarded to the Attorney-General’s Ministry three there are more efforts needed,” but noted months ago, but only posted on the court hiring more judges is a costly endeavour. website Thursday.

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“It’s not just hiring a judge, it’s then supporting that judge with sherriffs and court clerks and other support staff,” Penner told TheVancouver Sun. “The cost of operating one judge in a courtroom, for one year, is approximately $1.6 million when you include the support staff.”

With the provincial government operating at a $1.6 billion deficit this fiscal year, Penner said he is also looking at alternative ways to cut costs and streamline the court process. They include using more technology—such as video conferencing for court appearances—and finding a way to immediately use a courtroom where a scheduled trial is cancelled at the last minute.

“If it’s always going to be about finding more and more money, it’s going to be very difficult,” Penner said. “There is an unlimited demand for service but there is a significant limitation on the amount people are willing to pay on taxes.”

Budget planning Budget planning season draws near again for School District No. 33. The district’s annual public consultations, dubbed “Conversations on Educating Chilliwack’s Youth,” begin Jan. 27 at 3:30 p.m. at Chilliwack middle school with a preliminary discussion about planning for 21st Century learners.

A second conversation follows on Feb. 24 with three separate meetings (one for staff, one for parents and one for the aboriginal community) aimed at identifying priorities for student success.

School briefs The separate sessions have a target audience but are also open for general attendance.

Students have their own meeting Feb. 25.

The budget consultation process culminates April 7 with the presentation of the 2011-12 proposed budget.

Web redesign The Chilliwack school district is in the

process of a $20,000 redesign of its district and school websites.

Following a facelift of the sd33.bc.ca website last summer, four schools (Evans elementary, Strathcona elementary, Vedder middle and Chilliwack secondary) are piloting new websites scheduled to go live Feb. 1.

The goal is to get all schools onto the same content management platform (Drupal).

Along with making the sites easier for parents to navigate, the change will create a uniform visual identity for the district. ◗ Compiled by staff

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MOBILE HOME pads available in Abbotsford, Chilliwack and Hope.

Call Chuck 604-830-1960 REPOSSESSED MOBILE homes, 1981 to 2009. free 20 x 40 to be moved. 604-830-1960 SRI HOMES 16 wide $ 75,950.

Special: Free painted gyproc until Dec 20th. 604-830-1960

6052

Real Estate Investment

TIMESHARE CANCEL. Were you misled when you purchased a Timeshare? Get out NOW with contract cancellation!

STOP paying Mortgage and Maintenance! 100% Money back Guaranteed. 1-888-816-7128, X-6868 or 702-527-6868.

FORECLOSURES Must Be Sold!

150,000

690 Park Street, Hope 4 bdrm, 2 full bath, family room, garage/workshop. All on a level 6000 sq ft. corner lot within walking distance of everything!

6508

Apt/Condos

THE VIBE @ $800

2 br avail. 6 appl - close to FVU, bus & shopping, secured parking, gym on site.

SUTTON GROUP 604-793-2200 1 LARGE BEDROOM Stove, fridge, drapes, heat, hot water, garbage, elevator Seniors Welcome.

2 BR Apt, avail immed, $695 + SD main flr, incl’s, 5 appl, lg balcony, resident manager, 9481 College St. Call Tammy 604-791-2559

237,500

$

Better than new and NO HST! 3 bdrm, 3 bath, 3 level townhome in fabulous condition.

1287030_1228

CALL DAVE BARR Park Georgia Realty

1.604.941.3838

6508

Apt/Condos

RENTALS | 604-793-2200

1 bdrm 2 level . . . . . . Twnhse, 650 sq. ft. F/S. - $550 1 bdrm suite . . . . . . . . . quiet, large incl’s heat - $550 1 bdrm + den . . . . . . . . . 6 appl, A/C, security. - $775 2 bdrm corner unit . . . .

6 appl., Secure park. - $795

2 bdrm apt . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 appl., gas incl’d. - $750 2 bdrm condo . . . . . Large patio, hot water incl. - $700 2 bdrm house . . . . . . . .

3 bdrm house

Sardis Park, 4 appl. - $1000

Close to Prospera, util incl - $725 all utilities incl - $1500

5 appl., garage/shop, 1000 sq. ft. - $1100

3 bdrm mnflr houseSardis, utils includ., 5 appl. - $1400 3 bdrm townhouse . .

3 levels, 6 appl, gas f/p - $1250

3 bdrm rancher . . . . . Close to schools, 5 appl. - $1200 4 bdrm house . . . Close to FUV, 4 appl., garage - $1200 4 bdrm house1 car garage, 2 bath, 3 appl. fmly rm - $1400 5 bdrm house

Houses - Rent

6 BR home on acrge, with shop, quiet private location, suits long term $2250/mth. 1-604-853-5195

5 BDRM 1 bath on Kipp Ave. 4 appl, RENO’D Avail Dec. 1 $1350/mth Ph 604-823-6409

z

6540

5 appl, Sardis, 2 car garage / pool - $1500

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CHILLIWACK, DOWNTOWN. 3 BR upper 2 floors, in well-kept heritage home. 2,000 sq ft. 1.5 baths. D/w, priv w/d, f/yrd. Lots of prkg. No pets. N/s. $1,200/mo + utils. Immed. 604-798-1560 SMALL HOUSE on acreage, 1 br, $700 + utils, 46751 Chilliwack Lake Rd. call 604-858-8863 STOP RENTING-RENT TO OWN ● No Qualification - Low Down ● COQUITLAM - 218 Allard St. 2 bdrm HANDY MAN SPECIAL!!!

HOUSE, bsmt/2 sheds....$888/M NEW WEST- 1722-6th Av 2 bdrm HOUSE w/1 suite 2 f/p,Long term finance, new roof, RT-1..$1,288/M SURREY- 6297 134 St. Solid 5 bdrm HOUSE w/2 bdrm suite on 1/4 acre lot with views... $1,688/M CHILLIWACK - 9557 Williams, 3 bdrm, 1 bath, cozy HOUSE on 49x171’ lot, excellent investment property in heart of town..... $888/M Call Kristen (604)786-4663 www.HomeBuyingCenter.ca

6602

6602

Suites/Partial Houses

FAIRFIELD, Chwk. 2 BR, grd/lvl ste, private W/D. $875. N/S, Pet neg. Avail now. 604-309-2793

6605

Townhouses Rent

TOWNS & GREENS, 3 Br + den T/H, recent reno’d, $1050 + DD, Jan 1. ns,pet neg 604-847-3839

6620

Warehouse/ Commercial

Store Front office space for lease 575 sf. busy complex.

(Cwk) M.Y. Mini Storage

604-703-1111

Suites/Partial Houses

1 BR STE, Chilliwack lake road, incl hydro and cable, $600 Avail Jan 1st. 604-316-1761

2 bdrm main floor,

1200 sqft, close to Little Mountain Elementary school. Fenced yard, utilities included. Small pet ok/kids welcome. $1100 SUTTON GROUP

604-793-2200

1 BEDROOM SUITE

3rd flr units, hot water included, coin laundry.

Agassiz SUTTON GROUP

To place your ad call

604-795-4417

604-793-2200

LEGALS

2 blks from malls, 5 appl, 4th flr quiet unit, gas f/p, 1 prkg stall. $850 SUTTON GROUP

604-793-2200

• Residential • Residential area Area • Elevator • Adult Oriented • Elevator • Adult Oriented • Sparkling Renovations • Sparkling Renovations • 1 Bdrm Smoking From $590 • 1 No Bdrm from $600

9530 Fletcher St. 793-9572

Bach, 1 & 2 BR, $470 up heat & h/w, garbage incl, no pets, Chwk nr amens. Resident Mgr. Member of Crime Free Multi-housing, Now, 604-792-8974 leave msg.

CHWK, 1BR, 1st Ave bright corner unit, 5 appls, insuite w/d, off St prkg, $625, avail now. Ref’s req’d. 604-819-5646 Harrison Hot Springs 1 br, furn. newer reno across Lake, ns, np $550 incl cable 604-853-4273

#3 - 6498 Southdowne Pl, Sardis East

Houses - Rent

2 BDRM CONDO SARDIS

CHILLIWACK, Watson/Bedder, 1 BR $650, d/w, micro, no pets, N/S, avail Now, 778-242-1917

Blowout Price

3 BDRM home,YARROW, 1/2 acre fenced yard, 3 appl, $1250 Jan. 1st, Call 604-751-6277

3 bdrm house + inlaw suite

Incredible value at

$

6540

Houses - Rent

2 bdrm suite . . . . . .

604-824-0264/ 604-702-9106

Chilliwack

6540

6515

Duplexes - Rent

2 BR duplex, Off 1st Ave, spacious, 4 appls, ns, pet neg. $950 incl utils. 604-847-0545 4 BD duplex Kathleen Dr., 3 bth, f/s, w/d, d/w, n/s, n/p Avail Feb 1.

Phone 604-792-1787

6540

Houses - Rent

2 BR small older House, Nr Mall in Vedder $1050, 1/2mo Damage Deposit, no pets, 604-703-8967 3 BDRM 2 bath rancher in quiet neighbourhood, close to schools & shopping, 5 appl, n/s, n/p, $1400/m + util 604-751-4997

NOTICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION MEETING In accordance with Section 166 of the Community Charter, notice is hereby given that a Public Information Meeting to receive public input with respect to the City of Chilliwack s Financial Plan Bylaw Amendment Bylaw 2010, No. 3730 will be held Monday, January 10, 2011 at 7:00 pm in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 8550 Young Road, Chilliwack, BC. Those wishing to make submissions will have an opportunity to be heard at the Public Information Meeting or, if you are unable to attend, you may send your written submission, including your name and address, to the City Clerk s OfUce by 4:00 pm on the date of the Public Information Meeting. All submissions will form part of the record of the meeting.

A copy of the proposed Financial Plan Bylaw Amendment Bylaw 2010, No. 3730 may be viewed during ofUce hours, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday, except holidays, at the OfUce of the City Clerk in City Hall, 8550 Young Road, Chilliwack BC. Please note that no further information or submissions can be considered by Council after the conclusion of the Public Information Meeting.

Karla D. Graham, CMC City Clerk 1287154_1228

CHILLIWACK TIMES TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2010 A31

Scrap Car Removal

9145 9125

Domestic

1998 EAGLE TALON ESI, 170k, 2.0 L, excellent condition, 5 spd, no accidents, silver exterior, grey interior. $3900. 604-763-3223

Has your vehicle reached the end of its useful life?

NEW YEARS

Have it recycled properly

SALE ENDS DECEMBER 31ST

Pick A Part is environmentally approved and meets all BC government standards for automotive recycling

BLOWOUT! SPORT UTILITY- 4X4 • 1999 Chev Tahoe LT

$4995

#AP7092 Loaded, leather

We will pay up to $

JIMMY • 2002 GMC Jimmy

$6519

#AP7169 4X4

HONDA CRV • 1997 Honda CR-V #AP5069 AWD, auto

$3576

#AP7063 WAS $5995

$4495

#AP7061 WAS $3495

$2387

#1FA37856 4X4, 7 PASS

$7128

#A3064 4X4, AUTO

$2495

• 1997 Jeep Grand Cherokee

• 1995 Jeep Grand Cherokee

30000

for most complete vehicles ~ FREE TOWING ~

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Pick A Part Used Auto Parts 43645 Industrial Way Chilliwack BC V2R 4L2

604-792-1221 Hours: 8:30am-5:00pm 7 Days A Week www.pickapart.ca

8180

Home Services

GET RESULTS! Post a classified in a few easy clicks. Choose your province or all across Canada.

Best value. Pay a fraction of the cost compared to booking individual areas. www.communityclassifieds.ca or 1-866-669-9222.

8195

Painting/ Wallpaper

Suds N Wash

Hot & Cold Pressure Washing & Interior/ Exterior Painting ✓ Siding ✓ Houses ✓ Concrete ✓ Patios ✓ Gutters ✓ Heavy Equipment · Residential · Commercial · Agricultural For Free estimates call 604-796-0189 Call Toll Free 1-888-400-8822 Cell 604-703-3319

8220

Be sure to check the classifieds It’s full of local listings that can save you money

604-795-4417

Plumbing

10% Off with this Ad! For all your plumbing, heating & reno needs.

Lic Gas Fitter, Aman. 778-895-2005

8240

Thinking of Renovating?

LEGALS

Renovations & Home Improvement

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Monday, January 10, 2011 at 7:00 p.m.

Council Chambers 8550 Young Road, Chilliwack, B.C. V2P 8A4 www.chilliwack.com

• 2003 Ford Explorer Eddie Bauer • 1990 Jeep Cherokee Sport

#1 FREE Scrap Vehicle Removal Ask about $500 Credit!!! $$ PAID for Some 604.683.2200

DAILY DRIVERS

• 2003 Toyota Camry SE #AP5036 4 CYL, AUTO

$6995

HONDA ACCORD • 2000 Honda Accord Ex-L #AP5021 1 OWNER, 4CYL, AUTO

• 2000 Grand Prix GTP

$4995

$3295 SPACE $3993 #AP5013 Loaded BOOKING For: MOTOR LORDS Rep: JWarren Ad#: 1286945 #AP5023 SUPER CHARGED, LEATHER

• 2003 Monte Carlo

MONTE CARLO • 2000 Monte Carlo SS #AP7096 WAS $5995

TAKE NOTICE that the Council of the City of Chilliwack will hold a Public Hearing, as noted above, on the following item:

STEVE TOWING SERVICES Scrap Car Removal. We Pay $$ for all cars. Call 778-316-7960

THE SCRAPPER

SCRAP CAR & TRUCK REMOVAL

CASH FOR ALL VEHICLES

604-790-3900 OUR SERVIC 2H

E

9155

Sport Utilities/ 4x4’s/Trucks

1988 FORD F-150 Super Cab 4x4, 215km, 302, 5.0 L, V8, runs great $1800 obo 604-316-2814

$3473

8065

Contracting

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FRASER VALLEY RENOVATIONS

Professional • Dependable

FOR ALL YOUR RENOVATION NEEDS

Call Eddie @ 1-604-825-7585 eddie@fraservalleyrenos.com DOUBLE O VENTURES ' Transform old concrete ' Interior & Exterior » Vinyl Sundecks » Railings » Siding & Soffits Quality & Satisfaction Guaranteed Free Estimates 604-703-0178 or 604-798-0578 doubleoventures@telus.net

#AP3092 AUTO, SUNROOF

$2991

DoYouWant a New Home?

#AP6321 154,000 KMS

$5253

BeYour Own Contractor & $AVE

#AP7127 2 DOOR WAS $6995

$5991

• Countertop Resurfacing • Bathtub & Tile Reglazing • Cabinet Door Re-Facing • Finishing Carpentry 604-825-3884 Toll Free: 1-877-668-4164 www.almegaresurfacing.com

CB Construction Management 604-316-6321 or cbjohn@shaw.ca Quality, Pride, Commitment

Quality Renos, additions, foundations & framing, decks, stairs, roofs, WCB Ins. 778-866-8655

FOCUS • 2001 Focus XZ-3

• 1998 Honda Accord • 1999 Honda Accord

TRUCKS & VANS

• 2000 Dodge Caravan

#AP5030 MILLENNIUM ED, LOW KM

$3557

10YearWarranty?

Call John Campbell

8250 Renovations Basements Additions

SEDONA • 2003 Kia Sedona EX #AP5022 NO ACCIDENTS

$5385

#2FE33874 WAS $2495

$1969

#AP7041

$6877

• 1998 Ford Windstar • 2001 Honda Odyssey

MOTORCYCLES

• 2007 Yamaha FZ 600 #JY00059

$5000

#AP009 WAS $5795

$5000

• 2007 Yamaha YZF 600

Parker’s 7981 Atchelitz Road

One call does it all!

Free Estimates Phone Wayne 604-845-1141

8160

Lawn & Garden

alparkerautosales.com

1286945_1228

DL#10257

CHILLIWACK ROOFING When Quality Counts!

Roof Evaluations by Professional Roofers

Family owned & operated since 1962

604-792-1479

SNOW REMOVAL

LANDSCAPE AWAY

• Xmas Lights • Hedges • Rubbish Removal • Odd Jobs

Snow Removal

Book Now for Snow Removal Winter Clean Up

Residential * Strata * Commercial ________________________

604-845-1467

(turn north on Atchelitz off Yale Road West)

Steve 778-828-0055 Dale 604-799-0310

On Top Since 1961

8295

• Yard Clean-Ups • Pruning • Gutters • Landscaping

310-JIMS (5467) BOOK A JOB AT

www.jimsmowing.ca

8330

Location Map

Roofing

Winter Services Same Day Service, Fully Insured

1. ZONING BYLAW AMENDMENT BYLAW 2010, No. 3731 (RZ000683) Location: 42785 Prairie Avenue Owner: Daniel and Lori Jackson Purpose: To rezone the subject property, as shown on the map below, from an R1-A (One Family Residential) Zone to an RR-A (Rural Residential – Accessory) Zone, to facilitate the construction of an Accessory Dwelling Unit.

Welding

WELDING & Fabrication, private shop and great shop rates in Chilliwack. Kevin 604-794-7561

Persons who deem that their interest in the property is affected by the proposed amendment bylaw will have an opportunity to be heard at the Public Hearing or, if you are unable to attend, you may send your written submission, including your name and address, to the City Clerk’s Office by 4:00 p.m. on the date of the Public Hearing. All submissions will form part of the record of the Hearing.

This proposed bylaw may be inspected between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays, from Friday, December 24, 2010 to Monday, January 10, 2011, both inclusive, in the Office of the City Clerk at City Hall, 8550 Young Road, Chilliwack, BC. Please direct your enquiries to our Planning & Strategic Initiatives Department at 604-793-2906.

Please note that no further information or submissions can be considered by Council after the conclusion of the Public Hearing.

Karla D. Graham, CMC City Clerk

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A32 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2010 CHILLIWACK TIMES

MARK’S WORK WEARHOUSE

BOXING WEEK ALL YELLOW TICKET PRICES THESE % TAKE ANOTHER OFF SPECIAL ITEMS

25

55% OFF

ARE

Leather upper, steel toe & steel plate, padded collar & tongue, rubber outsole.

adjustable cuff, fleece inner lining.

In Dark Grey Plaid or Black

89

$

99

Sizes 7-13

Reg 199.99

99

Reg 149.99

Foundation GTX 8” Workboot Gore Tex Lining - Waterproof & Breathable, Composite Safety Toe, Insulated, Slip Resistant Sole.

Sizes 7-13

55% OFF

50% OFF

89

$

74

$

Fury ST 8” Workboot CSA Approved, Steel Toe, Insulated, Metatarsal Guard, Slip Resistant Sole.

Sizes 7-13

50% OFF

Oregon ST Workboot

Misty Mountain 3Waterproof in 1 andWinter Coat breathable, zip off hood, Sizes Small to 2XL

50-55

%

99

149

$

Reg 199.99

99

Reg 299.99

Just a sample of the many Boxing Week Specials MANY MORE In-Store Specials ALL WEEK! Sale Starts Dec 26 and runs to Dec 31 or While Quantities Last!

YELLOW TICKET SAVINGS - DEC 26-31 TAKE AN ADDITIONAL

25%

off THE LOWEST YELLOW TICKETED PRICE *Excluding Gift Cards

OPEN 8:00AM - 5:00PM BOXING DAY FOLLOWED BY REGULAR HOURS CUSTOM EMBROIDERY SHOP ON SITE! Marks offers FREE hemming on Jeans & casual pant purchases. ®

Next to Bus Depot

604-858-4199 OPEN

12242574

8:30am - 9pm M-F 9am - 6pm SAT 10am - 5pm SUN

CHILLIWACK TO VANCOUVER

TO HOPE

VEDDER RD

45737 Luckakuck Way,

SUPERSTORE BUS DEPOT

LUCKAKUCK SARDIS

MARK'S