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League approves sale of Chilliwack Bruins
BY TYLER OLSEN tolsen@chilliwacktimes.com
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he consultant working with outgoing Chilliwack Bruins minority owners Jim Bond and Moray Keith has confirmed that the Western Hockey League franchise’s move to Victoria is inevitable. Glen Ringdal said the league has
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Some members of Bruins organization have already been given layoff notices conditionally approved not just the sale—as the WHL declared Tuesday—but also the relocation of the club. And those conditions, says Ring-
dal, “are not very onerous” and “within the hands of the league.” It had previously been unclear, but largely assumed, that the league’s approval of the club’s sale
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’Tis the season to burn
“It was right on the edge of the rural/urban interface,” Josephson said. “We had a fair bit of patience pring has arrived in Chilliwack with him and got to the point where and with the warmer weather we went out there this morning and comes flowers blooming and told him to shut ‘er down.” So did the owner get fined? the acrid stench of smoke. “No, not at all,” he said. “We knew Six weeks into the first of two twomonth annual burning seasons in full well what he was trying to do, it just didn’t work out.” the city and smoke is in the air. One complaint from critics of open So far in 2011, the City of Chilliwack has issued more than 700 air burning is that sometimes people burning permits for the March/April will pay the $25 for the permit, create a fire much larger burning season, than allowed under according to the bylaw, then beg assistant fire chief “I think people are forgiveness when Ian Josephson. getting the message the fire department And while those that you can’t be shows up. burning permits But Josephson keep city staff smoking out your said the CFD busy, they keep neighbours.” always warns those the Chilliwack violating the bylaw Fire Department Ian Josephson with or without a (CFD) scrambling permit once. The as well. One in 10 times that the CFD property is then flagged and the next goes out on a call it is to deal with a time it happens a fine is issued. What they do not tolerate is the burning complaint. In 2010, that was 243 calls for burning complaints. But burning of prohibited materials such that number was down from the as tires or construction materials. “You really have to be way out 299 burning complaints firefighters of bounds for us before we’ll start responded to in 2009. “I think people are getting the issuing a ticket,” he said. Josephson said the CFD is not message that you can’t be smoking out your neighbours,’ Josephson out patrolling open air burning and small fires are likely lit by permit told theTimes Monday. But last week one particular fire at holders. But if residents see someone a Knight Road property, which was burning a barn, tires, or construction much larger than the 1.5-metre-high or demolition waste that warrants a by two-metre-wide permitted in the $500 fine so they can call 911 and the city’s bylaw, caused so much smoke CFD will send out a truck. After May 1 and so many complaints the CFD open air burning is no longer allowed until the October/November season. shut it down Monday.
BY PAUL J. HENDERSON phenderson@chilliwacktimes.com
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BY TYLER OLSEN tolsen@chilliwacktimes.com
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cliff-diving accident at Cultus Lake killed a 26-year-old Abbotsford man Sunday. RCMP Cpl. Dwayne Farlin said a group of five friends were jumping off a 24-metre cliff Saturday at Lindell Beach. Shortly after 4 p.m., Mounties were called and told that one man never resurfaced after jumping into the lake. Search and EB IRST rescue personnel First reported on chilliwacktimes.com and RCMP dive team members re c ov e re d t h e man’s body that evening. Police are now waiting on the results of an autopsy to determine cause of death. The name of the diver has not been released. Farlin said that while the spot the men was jumping from was not more dangerous than others, although he noted that cliff jumping is always a “high-risk activity.”
included its movement to Victoria. But in the past three days, the franchise has begun to wind down operations in Chilliwack. Some, but not all, Chilliwack Bruins staff
members have been handed layoff notices as the outgoing owners of the Western Hockey League franchise clears the way for the team’s move to Victoria, according to a source with intimate knowledge of the situation. Not all staff members will stop working immediately, but many
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Grant Papineau lays a wreath at the Vedder Cenotaph on behalf of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 4 at the First World War Battle of Vimy Ridge Remebrance Parade Saturday. See www.chilliwacktimes.com for more photos.
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