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August 28, 2012
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Though thwarted during the play at left, Abbotsford’s BC Angels still thumped the visiting Regina Rage 41-18 in their inaugural Lingerie Football League game inside AESC Saturday night. For more, see page A15 and visit our online gallery at www.abbotsfordtimes.com.
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weeks in July. Abbotsford Police recently confirmed media reports that Goddard a c e b o o k p r e d a t o r was living in the same house Jeffrey Goddard will as another high-profile sex remain in jail after a offender, Donald Bakker, who judge denied him was released from bail Thursday, folprison in late July. lowing his arrest Both men were for allegedly conthe subject of pubnecting with an lic warnings when Abbotsford teen they moved to through social Abbotsford. media. Goddard origiThe provincial nally pleaded court judge found guilty to charges Goddard “deliberof impersonating a GODDARD ately flaunted” his police officer, lurprobation conditions when ing and invitation to sexual he allegedly “friended” a 15- touching in June 2011 after year-old Abbotsford boy. creating numerous fake He used a fake Facebook online identities to connect profile and then hired the with teenage boys. boy and his friend to do landHe received one year in jail scaping work. and three years probation The two boys allegedly with numerous conditions, worked in Goddard’s back- including that he not use the yard, eating their lunches see DENIED, page A13 in his room, for about two
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Man freed after getting stuck in feed silo
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24-year-old Abbotsford feed mill worker who got caught on some cords inside a grain silo he was cleaning on Monday morning was untangled by fire rescue personnel and released relatively unharmed. Michelle Pahl, the programs coordinator at Ritchie Smith Feeds,
Tangled and trapped inside 80-foot stack at Ritchie Smith
said the incident happened at about 9 a.m. during routine maintenance of one of the company’s 16 large grain silos. The silos at the Enterprise Avenue mill measure about 80 feet high and 30 feet in diameter, and are used to store canola, soy, wheat and other grains used in animal feed. There are vertical cords inside the
silos that help prevent the material from hardening into large lumps. Workers are lowered periodically to clear off any built-up material from the sides of the silos. “It’s a three-person cleaning crew. Two fellows stay on top as spotters and one is lowered on a line, and he knocks material off the sides of the silo where it gets built up or caked
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on,” Pahl explained. The worker was 60 to 70 feet down in the silo where he knocked some material loose, which hit one of the internal cords, and it wrapped around his legs and back. Because the silo is 30 feet wide, there was no wall for him to push against to try to gain some leverage to get untangled on his own,
said Pahl. Through his radio, the entangled worker called his two spotters at the top of the silo, who immediately informed their supervisor, who in turn called fire rescue. Abbotsford Fire Rescue Service and several other first responders arrived on scene, and an AFRS technician was lowered into the silo. He see SILO, page A3
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