Chilliwack Times September 27 2012

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September 27, 2012

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Massive identity theft scheme busted

Strahl backing abortion motion BY PETER O’NEIL Vancouver Sun

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handful of B.C.’s 36 MPs, including Chilliwack-Fraser Canyon’s Mark Strahl, will vote Wednesday in favour of a motion that is aimed at forcing Parliament to consider a new law to restrict abortion. The motion is almost certain to be defeated due to opposition from Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the majority of his cabinet, as well as the NDP, most of the Liberals, and EB IRST Green leader ElizFirst reported on abeth May. chilliwacktimes.com “There’s no way it’s going to pass,” said Liberal health critic Hedy Fry, a physician and MP for Vancouver Centre. Motion 312, sponsored by Ontario Conservative Stephen Woodworth, calls for the creation of a committee

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Man of

Steele

BY TYLER OLSEN tolsen@chilliwacktimes.com

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life. He grew up on a prairie farm, enlisted in the army, raised five sons and one daughter, and ran several lodges along the Alaska Highway. A man of routine, who would have a sip of vodka every afternoon at 3 p.m., a glass of wine at 5 p.m. and prepare his morning coffee the night before, Steele was ready to start a new habit. Nearly 10 years later, on Aug. 3, 2012, Steele turned 97 years old and walked into the Landing Leisure Centre for the very last time. The visit was his 1,962nd to the recreation complex.

Chilliwack woman is facing multiple charges after Mounties uncovered what they say was a complex identitytheft scheme operating out of a Yale Road house. While executing a search warrant at a home in the 46300 block of Yale Road, Mounties found around 1,000 stolen personal ID cards along with computer hard drives full of credit card data The search came as part of an ongoing investigation into the use of stolen credit cards at businesses in Chilliwack. The cards recovered from the home included credit cards, drivers licences, BC Care Cards, SIN cards, status cards, school identification, foreign identification and

See STEELE, Page 15

See IDENTITY, Page 9

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Frank Steele was a fixture at the Landing Leisure Centre, walking through its doors nearly 2,000 times over a 10-year span.

He was lovingly called ‘Mr. Leisure Centre’ BY TYLER OLSEN tolsen@chilliwacktimes.com

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t 7:06 a.m. on the morning of Sept. 4, 2002, Frank Steele walked into the brand-new Landing Leisure Centre and showed his membership pass for the very first time. Steele was 87 years old and had already lived a full

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