12-12T JA13 Retail 85¢ Box $1.00 PLUS PST 19 3 11 News Salmon Low snowpack prompts concern. Scene Stage Honours for young playwright. YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER • FOUNDED IN 1891 • WWW.THEPROGRESS.COM • WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 2015 Progress Wednesday The Chilliwack Sports Chiefs The Chilliwack Chiefs move on to the second round. Line of duty funeral planned for volunteer firefighter Jessica Peters The Progress A full line of duty funeral is being arranged for Columbia Valley vol- unteer firefighter Brian Smyth. The 57-year-old suffered a car- diac arrest while fighting a fire on Iverson Road near Cultus Lake on March 4. He had been a member of the Columbia Valley Volunteer Fire Department for seven years. The fire had started at about 5 p.m., and the lone occupant of the home exited safely. At about 9:20 p.m., the regional district said Smyth sought medical attention and was treated on scene. He was then flown to Royal Columbian Hospital, and remained on life sup- port for two days. The FVRD’s Jennifer Kinneman said Smyth “passed away peace- fully in the presence of family and friends.” “Smyth continues to give back to others in death, as he donated his organs to save the lives of others,” she added. Smyth is survived by a sister, nephew, grand niece and many friends and neighbours, the FVRD noted. The Fire Chiefs’ Association of BC has sent its condolences to Smyth’s family, to Columbia Valley’s Fire Chief Mike Soth and to the entire fire department. “Events like this remind us all of the dangers firefighters face on a regular basis in service and pro- tection to their communities,” said Jennifer Feinberg The Progress A controversial waste recycling plant is still in limbo, but a fresh web look for Aevitas Inc. tries to blunt some of the criticism levelled at the proposed project at 7582 Cannor Road. While the Ontario-based pro- ponent awaits word on techni- cal reviews by B.C. Ministry of Environment, and to see if an envi- ronmental assessment process will be required, it has released a new video that takes direct aim at criticisms of the proposed location near the Fraser River. In the video, Aevitas president Byron Day is featured in a Q&A style conversation, explaining why the Chilliwack site on Cannor Road in the Cattermole Park is best for the proposed hazardous waste recycling and transfer sta- tion. There is also a 3D look at the architectural drawings for the plant. “For us it’s the best site,” said Day, underlining it was not a “ran- dom” selection of Chilliwack, but rather it took a year of exhaustive searching to find the best location for a plant to safely remove mer- cury from CFC lamps and oil from transformers, among other goals. “This site checked off all the boxes,” he said. It had to be far from residen- tial neighbourhoods, southwest of Hope, well positioned for trans- port, and “as far away from water as possible.” Every voice opposed to this project has said the location is wrong because of the proxim- ity to the river, including some Sto:lo leaders, but Day disagrees, providing an online map of local streams, creeks and waterways to show the inherent connectivity. “Look at the Lower Mainland. It’s pretty hard to get away from waterways. “We’d have this problem no matter where we were.” The dike around the Cattermole lands protects to one-in-200 year flood level. Aevitas officials asked for alter- nate suggestions, and got a couple they looked at and rejected. “But this is the best site that we could choose by far.” What about those who are con- cerned it’s too close at 200 metres from the river? “Some people are saying we’re on the Fraser River, but we’re not actually on the river. We’re set back 200 metres and we’re well protected,” he said. There’s the dike, two other lots, an access road between the water and the site. There are also plans for 10 lev- els of containment, including a clay liner and impervious geo- membrane. It would be the 10th facility for Aevitas, a company that considers itself “an industry leader in pro- viding environmentally respon- sible” waste solutions. See more including the video at http://aevitasweb.wix.com/ aevitas [email protected]twitter.com/CHWKjourno Aevitas counters critics with new video ■ S ORRY , E ASTERN C ANADA People bask in the sun on a dock at Entrance Bay in Cultus Lake during a warm winter afternoon on Saturday. Temperatures over the weekend reached nearly 17 degrees on both days. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS Continued: MOURNED/ p5 Brian Smyth
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Line of duty funeral planned for volunteer firefighterJessica PetersThe Progress
A full line of duty funeral is being arranged for Columbia Valley vol-unteer firefighter Brian Smyth.
The 57-year-old suffered a car-diac arrest while fighting a fire on Iverson Road near Cultus Lake on March 4. He had been a member of the Columbia Valley Volunteer Fire Department for seven years.
The fire had started at about 5 p.m., and the lone occupant of the home exited safely. At about 9:20 p.m., the regional district said Smyth sought medical attention and was treated on scene. He was then flown to Royal Columbian Hospital, and remained on life sup-port for two days.
The FVRD’s Jennifer Kinneman said Smyth “passed away peace-fully in the presence of family and friends.”
“Smyth continues to give back to others in death, as he donated his organs to save the lives of others,” she added.
Smyth is survived by a sister, nephew, grand niece and many friends and neighbours, the FVRD noted.
The Fire Chiefs’ Association of BC has sent its condolences to Smyth’s family, to Columbia Valley’s Fire Chief Mike Soth and to the entire fire department.
“Events like this remind us all of the dangers firefighters face on a regular basis in service and pro-tection to their communities,” said
Jennifer FeinbergThe Progress
A controversial waste recycling plant is still in limbo, but a fresh web look for Aevitas Inc. tries to blunt some of the criticism levelled at the proposed project at 7582 Cannor Road.
While the Ontario-based pro-ponent awaits word on techni-cal reviews by B.C. Ministry of Environment, and to see if an envi-ronmental assessment process will be required, it has released a new video that takes direct aim at criticisms of the proposed location near the Fraser River.
In the video, Aevitas president Byron Day is featured in a Q&A style conversation, explaining why the Chilliwack site on Cannor Road in the Cattermole Park is
best for the proposed hazardous waste recycling and transfer sta-tion.
There is also a 3D look at the architectural drawings for the plant.
“For us it’s the best site,” said Day, underlining it was not a “ran-dom” selection of Chilliwack, but rather it took a year of exhaustive searching to find the best location for a plant to safely remove mer-cury from CFC lamps and oil from transformers, among other goals.
“This site checked off all the boxes,” he said.
It had to be far from residen-tial neighbourhoods, southwest of Hope, well positioned for trans-port, and “as far away from water as possible.”
Every voice opposed to this project has said the location is
wrong because of the proxim-ity to the river, including some Sto:lo leaders, but Day disagrees, providing an online map of local streams, creeks and waterways to show the inherent connectivity.
“Look at the Lower Mainland. It’s pretty hard to get away from waterways.
“We’d have this problem no matter where we were.”
The dike around the Cattermole lands protects to one-in-200 year flood level.
Aevitas officials asked for alter-nate suggestions, and got a couple they looked at and rejected.
“But this is the best site that we could choose by far.”
What about those who are con-cerned it’s too close at 200 metres from the river?
“Some people are saying we’re
on the Fraser River, but we’re not actually on the river. We’re set back 200 metres and we’re well protected,” he said.
There’s the dike, two other lots, an access road between the water and the site.
There are also plans for 10 lev-els of containment, including a clay liner and impervious geo-membrane.
It would be the 10th facility for Aevitas, a company that considers itself “an industry leader in pro-viding environmentally respon-sible” waste solutions.
See more including the video at http://aevitasweb.wix.com/aevitas
People bask in the sun on a dock at Entrance Bay in Cultus Lake during a warm winter afternoon on Saturday. Temperatures over the weekend reached nearly 17 degrees on both days. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS
Continued: MOURNED/ p5
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Chilliwack firefighters battled to gain access to a fire beneath the Yale Road overpass near Railway Avenue Friday.
Small explosions could be heard as crews tried to get water on the blaze.
Access was limited by fences built to keep people off the railway track, which runs under the bridge.
Thick black smoked curled upwards to Yale Road above.
A search of what appeared to be a homeless camp found no victims.
Fire officials said the explosions could have come from aerosol cans discarded at the site.
No buildings or vehicles were damaged in the fire.
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A Chilliwack firefighter uses a ladder to gain access to a fire beneath the Yale Road overpass Friday. GREG KNILL/ PROGRESS
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Barn Burner brings the barbecue masters to ChilliwackJennifer FeinbergThe Progress
They’re promising competition calibre barbecue at its finest.
It’s a fully-sanctioned barbecue competition coming to Chilliwack on March 22 that will attract fans from all over the Lower Mainland with free samples, and live enter-tainment.
Get ready for the First Annual Barn Burner BBQ 2015
Competition, hosted by Well Seasoned owner Angie Quaale, and presented by Chilliwack producers Johnston’s Pork and Fraser Valley Specialty Poultry.
“This event will unite barbecue enthusiasts from all across North America who join the quest for ultimate finger-licking barbeque,” says competition organizer Angie Quaale. She is also the host of the decade-old annual BBQ Off The Bypass competition.
“There is no doubt in my mind that the first ever Canadian Barn Burner championship will be a smoking hot event and one to remember.”
Local agri-food producers are in the spotlight, and it’s a chance to see the grill experts do their thing.
More than 20 competitors are coming to town to test their mettle from both sides of the border.
“The big guns of barbecue are all coming.”
The competition will see the battle of the ‘cue in four main cat-egories: Beef Brisket, Pulled Pork, Chicken and Ribs. The winning team with the highest total points in all four categories will take home their share of $5000 in prize money along with the first Barn Burner BBQ Grand Championship trophy and bragging rights.
There will be live demonstra-tions and vendors.
Low snowpack ‘scary’ for salmonJeff NagelBlack Press
The snowpack in south-western B.C.’s mountains has been pushed further into record low territory by continued warm and dry weather.
The Lower Fraser water-shed is now at 28 per cent of its normal snowpack for this time of year, down from 45 per cent a month ago.
And it’s even lower just to the west at 21 per cent on Vancouver Island and just 15 per cent in the South Coast region, which includes Squamish and Whistler.
B.C.’s River Forecast Centre called the readings “extremely low” in its latest snow level bulletin posted March 9. Most test sites in the three regions are at lows never before seen.
It’s impossible to guaran-tee there will be no spring flooding on the Lower Fraser – there are still close to nor-mal snowpacks in the mid and upper sections of the watershed and a fast melt of what’s left can’t be ruled out.
But River Forecast Centre officials say there’s a below normal risk of seasonal flood-ing because the watershed as a whole is 84 per cent of normal, one of the lowest years on record.
Jessica PetersThe Progress
This past Sunday started out well for Chilliwack resident Mel McKeen.
Despite having a mild heart attack the week before, the 74-year-old was feeling energetic and outgoing. He told his family he would be heading out for a meal at one of his favourite restaurants, with one of his best friends.
Somewhere in Chilliwack, two nurses made the same plan. Unknown to each other, the two parties enjoyed their meals at different sides of the restaurant. Then, out of the blue, McKeen suf-fered another heart attack.
Without any warning, with no obvious signs of distress, he just fell over. His friend called out for an ambulance to be called, alert-ing the two nurses to the situation. They performed CPR immediate-ly while paramedics made their way to the restaurant, C Lovers Fish and Chips. Tricia Mercer, McKeen’s next of kin, was also called right away. She arrived as paramedics worked on McKeen.
“The paramedics were there when I arrived,” she said. “They were working so hard on him, they were all sweating, there was the life support team, ALS, every-body.”
But as the paramedics took over the scene, and Mercer’s concern
was on McKeen’s well-being, she never got to thank those nurses. Now, she’s hoping to get in touch with them to let them know how much they’re appreciated.
“I just think that there are so many bad stories that get out there and the nurses really take the brunt of it,” she said. “But they’re heroes. They did it. They saved him. I don’t know if they realize that, if they just think it’s the job they do and it comes auto-matically.”
McKeen will have a long road to recovery, Mercer said. He has numerous health concerns, includ-ing COPD, the prior heart trouble, and a stroke in his past. Over the last while, he’d been in and out of
the ER numerous times, unwell. “I know he’s really sick still, but
without them, he wouldn’t even have a chance,” she said.
Even the paramedics did an amazing job, she added.
“The paramedics stayed at the hospital with him for a long time,” she said. “They were just really helpful and they all said, if those two nurses weren’t there we would have been looking at a completely different scenario.”
She said the heart attack took them all by surprise.
“Yesterday (Sunday) he was actually feeling really good,” she said. “He sounded chipper and happy and he said he was going to go out to C Lovers. He just ate
his food, he was normal the entire time, and then he just fell over. There was no indication he was not well.”
McKeen has no blood relatives close to him, Mercer said. But the community has embraced him and everyone has come to know him as family. When McKeen suf-fered a stroke a few years ago, the Mercer family decided to take him in, to give him a better chance at recovery.
“He is a father figure to us, and my kids call him grandpa,” she said. “He’s an amazing man and he’s touched a lot of people’s lives in this community. I’m forever grateful for him. He has a very
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“For me local food is super important,” she said. “It just makes sense to source as much as we can locally.”
When they say “fully-sanc-
tioned” it means of the two officially sanctioned barbe-cue bodies, they are working with one from Kansas City BBQ Society to present a pro-fessional cook-off event with
a trained judging panel.“It’s a brand new event in
a new location,” said Quaale.Admission to the free, fam-
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Ruth and Naomi’s Mission. It runs 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 4540 Simmons Road, Chilliwack.
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The fire originated in the kitchen, where a pot was left unattended on the stove. Paramedics took one person to hospital for observation, and there were no firefighter injuries.
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FCABC president Timothy Pley, calling it “truly a sad time for everyone.”
Smyth’s name was read out on Monday as part of the BC Fallen Firefighter Memorial in Victoria. Hundreds converged there to remember the lives of those lost in 2014 and 2015. There was also a moment of silence held at Monday’s Chilliwack Chiefs playoff game.
Members of the FVRD board also sent out con-dolences to Smyth’s friends, family and colleagues.
“Our thoughts and prayers go out to Mr. Smyth’s family, the Columbia Valley Volunteer Fire Department, and the community,” said Chilliwack mayor and FVRD board chair Sharon Gaetz. “We are deeply saddened.”
“I know that Brian was well loved by his fellow firefighters and a respected, longtime resident of the community,” said Taryn Dixon, Electoral Area H director. “His presence will be greatly missed.”
Columbia Valley firefighter mournedMOURNED from Front
They predict low flow conditions on rivers will come earlier and be more severe unless there’s significant rainfall this spring and summer.
Watershed Watch Salmon Society executive director Aaron Hill said that could mean trouble for returning sockeye salmon that may encoun-ter dangerously warm river tem-peratures and low water levels that impede their migration.
“It’s definitely a scary situa-tion for salmon this year,” Hill said. “Especially those stocks – like Fraser sockeye – that have long migrations to make later on in the summer, when the water gets low and it really heats up.”
Warm water temperatures stress salmon and can also make them more susceptible to disease.
Nor is the snowpack the only adverse environmental factor for salmon.
The same El Niño weather pat-tern responsible for the mild winter has also warmed ocean temperatures. Hill said that’s brought certain salm-on predators, such as mackerel, fur-ther north than usual.
“If we end up having a hot summer that warms up those rivers then it’s a triple whammy,” Hill said. “We need to cross our fingers and hope for cool weather this summer and some rain.”
Environment Canada is forecast-ing a high likelihood of above-normal temperatures from March through May.
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A 52-year-old man is facing charges after Chilliwack RCMP discov-ered a marijuana grow operation in a Vedder Crossing business.
Police, acting on “mul-tiple complaints from neighboring businesses and customers regard-ing the smell of marijua-na,” searched the 5616 Vedder Road building on Monday.
Inside they found a total of 165 marijuana plants along with equip-ment used to produce marijuana. A check with Health Canada indicat-ed the location was not licensed to produce mari-juana.
Chilliwack municipal bylaw officers and the electrical safety inspector attended due to concerns regarding the electrical wiring located inside the business.
A 52-year-old male was arrested after he was observed coming and going from the business. The RCMP continues to investigate.
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The proven value of CPR training
The value of a community well versed in CPR has long been docu-mented.
It’s a simple process that can mean the difference between life and death.
That fact became evident again on the weekend when two off-duty nurses stepped in and assisted a Chilliwack man who had suffered a heart attack at local restaurant. (See story page 3.)
The man’s condition is still serious. However, the outcome would have been much different had the two unidentified individuals not done what they had done.
CPR – coronary pulmonary resuscitation – is not new. What it does, though, is critically important. Chest compressions, coupled with arti-ficial respiration, continues to circulate oxygenated blood to the brain and other vital organs when the heart can no longer do the job.
Without it, serious and irreparable damage can begin to occur in just four minutes.
CPR buys time, allowing medical first responders to arrive, stabilize the patient, and transport him or her to more aggressive intervention.
It’s not a complicated process, but it does take training.Efforts have been made to simplify the procedure. The goal is to
encourage people to take the training and not be intimidated by it.Several opportunities exist in the community, including St. John’s
Ambulance and the University of the Fraser Valley. Local schools are also encouraging students to gain their CPR certification.
There’s no guarantee that those who receive CPR will survive. But a simple technique, with a proven track record can at least give them a fighting chance.
VICTORIA – B.C.’s new seniors’ advocate has issued her second report, and the media mostly ignored it.
When this new office was prom-ised by a campaigning Premier Christy Clark two years ago, I sug-gested that B.C. already has 85 seniors’ advocates. They’re called MLAs, and inquiries go to their local offices.
Much to the chagrin of the opposition, Seniors’ Advocate Isobel Mackenzie’s mandate is not to pursue individual cases, and so she won’t be serving up a fresh assortment of horror stories to embarrass the government.
Instead, it is to look for “sys-temic challenges” and recom-mend ways to deal with them. The latest report is based on a survey of more than 500 seniors from around the province, and the key finding was not what she expected.
“We were surprised to learn of the lack of awareness among seniors, particularly low-income seniors, of government programs
and the subsidies available to assist them,” Mackenzie said.
The sur vey found that 60 per cent of seniors liv-ing on $30,000 or less annual income didn’t know they are eligible for discounts on Medical Services
Plan premiums. For income less than $22,000, the entire $864 cost of individual MSP premiums is waived.
Other frequently overlooked programs are a monthly rent sub-sidy called Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters (SAFER), grants for dis-ability modifications called Home
Adaptations for Independence, drug cost assistance called Fair Pharmacare, property tax defer-ment and the federal Guaranteed Income Supplement program. Those older than 75 with income of less than $30,000 reported the lowest awareness of assistance designed specifically for them. But you don’t get these benefits unless you apply and show that your income qualifies.
The survey also found that the biggest fear of low-income seniors is that they won’t be able to afford to stay in their homes. See home adaptation, property tax and rent subsidy programs above.
Awareness and usage of the SAFER program was lowest in the north and highest in urban areas, perhaps not surprising since the B.C. government exists more in theory than in fact in many remote places.
So what should the govern-
ment do about this? Well, it could advertise these programs. The government does lots of advertis-ing, but not about old news like the SAFER program, which dates back to the 1970s.
Clark’s government did a whack of advertising in the elec-tion year, 2013. Much of it was about the B.C. Jobs Plan, heavy on the hardhats and blueprint-style graphics and arc welding and stuff like that.
Then last year the government’s big ad campaign was around the teachers’ strike, and the payments to parents to help with child care while teachers demanded twice as big a raise as all the other unions.
Education Minister Peter Fassbender is still bragging about the response rate for $40-a-day parental strike pay, which was snapped up by almost 100 per cent of eligible parents. This dem-onstrates that the government
can indeed give away money with great efficiency, just by telling people how to get it.
The NDP’s version of seniors’ advocacy is to find the most tragic problems from complaints com-ing into constituency offices, and use those to ambush the govern-ment.
A popular choice is an elderly couple who have to be separated because their medical needs are too different to keep them in the same facility. TV news loves that one. People cry on camera and denounce politicians for being heartless, as if the health minis-ter stayed up late plotting how to break their granny’s heart.
Maybe this seniors’ advocate wasn’t such a bad idea after all.
Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @tom-fletcherbc Email: [email protected]
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Was Jason Parent able to keep a straight face when “explain-ing” why gas prices are on their way up again in the gas prices story of Wednesday? (Gas prices soar despite lagging crude oil, Chilliwack Progress, March 4). And did you believe him? If so “you’re a better man than I am...” as Rudyard Kipling once said.
The word “obfuscation” springs to mind when read-ing Mr. Parent’s explanation. Obfuscation, (or beclouding) is the hiding of intended meaning in communication, making com-munication confusing, willfully
ambiguous, or harder to inter-pret, often by circumlocution. Sound about right?
The gas price story changes with the circumstance, but it always comes down to the same thing. The grand pooh-bahs of the oil patch will say and do anything to keep the prices up and to keep their big salaries and bonuses at the expense of the driving public.
How can we believe them when the story changes so often? They are very fortunate that Canadians are so willing and almost eager to say, with that
cute little shrug... “well, what can we do about it?”
And isn’t it fascinating how every station seems to come up with the same price right down to the tenth of a cent? But of course there is no monopoly when it comes to gasoline pric-ing is there?
Fortunately the border is close and with just a bit of adjust-ment in our driving habits we can make it across to benefit from the cheaper gasoline.
Do we feel guilty? Nope.
Andy & Bev Fraser
Gas pricing smells fishy
Tax cuts kick debt down the roadRe: Why cut taxes for
the rich? (B.C. Views, Chilliwack Progress, Feb. 25).
I’m a senior with a defined-benefit pension plan and income split-ting. I’m using the tax free saving accounts. I get a seniors’ discount on my property tax. I can defer my proper-ty tax if I want and at some point I may. I’m not wealthy, but com-fortable.
Both the federal
Conservatives and B.C. Liberals have reduced income taxes for me. Why would I disagree with their policies? We are the privileged gen-eration – you may enjoy the same privileges, in retirement, while they last.
Why the concern? Only because we have grandchildren who will be paying for the privi-leges and lifestyle that the B.C. Liberals and Conservatives think
we deserve (for votes), with borrowed govern-ment money. It’s called debt, and the B.C. Liberals have doubled it in the last decade or so.
Bring back Premier Ralph Klein from Alberta, in 20 years. By then I may be gone, and the grandchildren will be working to pay the interest on the debts. There will likely be riots, as there were in Greece. Greece – still at 173 per cent debt to
GDP after four years of austerity – too late for them to get out their own mess. My TFSA will suffer a bit when they default.
As my Grade 11 math teacher said, ”you can pay me now, or pay me later.” “Pay me later” sounds pretty good to the privileged genera-tion. Hope you can join up soon – while it lasts.
Phil Harrison
Re: Tree fort destruction angers youth (Chilliwack Progress Readers Write; March 4.
I sympathize with Parker Christie and his cohorts, but I encourage them to consider themselves fortunate.
About 10 years ago (a time before personal electronic-games), my eight year old son and his cohorts played outside, each day, under and in, the huge climbing and sitting-on boughs of a hundred-year-old oak. One day, one of the cohorts nailed a board on this oak. The next day, a Chilliwack bylaw enforcement person knocked on my door and threatened to charge me with breaching bylaw No. 3290. I was directed to remove the nailed board immediately, under this person’s scrutiny, or I would be summoned to court to pay a $10,000 fine. Obviously, I removed the nailed board immediately. But the very next week, a Chilliwack City crew cut down the hundred-year-old oak.
B. A. Stephenson,Chilliwack
This is a reply to Gert Edwards concerns of safety on the Rotary Trail.
First, there is nothing wrong about what she stated in her letter except she only has the viewpoint of a pedestrian. The trail is multi-use for pedestrians, hors-es and cyclists. I’m the latter, a cyclist. At the Vedder bridge start point there is a very good sign outlining the responsibilities of each class of user and if all users followed the guidelines that applied to them it would be safer and overall a pleasant walk or ride for all. The only drawback being there are no signs at the Peach or Lickman entrances.
Now as a cyclist I have a bell (not effective for those hard of hearing or using ear buds) and I yield to pedestrians and horses as I am supposed to do but pedestrians who do not keep to the right (see the sign) and walk in the middle or zig-zag compromise their own safety.
And finally not to let horse riders off, I have yet to see any rider pick up any horse droppings (again read the sign).
David Iceton,Chilliwack
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In times of heart-wrench-ing grief and personal loss, it’s good to know you’re not alone.
That’s the reassur-ing message of the play, Holding On, written by 17-year-old Megan Rubeniuk of Chilliwack.
The play has earned a place in the provincial spot-light of high school drama.
Rubeniuk, a Grade 12 student at G.W. Graham middle-secondary school, will be performing the play at the Sears B.C. Drama Festival at Douglas College in New West, April 30-May 2.
Holding On tells the story of a teenaged boy who is devastated after his girlfriend dies, and paints the emotional aftermath of that sudden loss. The young woman, Morgan, actually comes back as a ghost to help her friends and family deal with the terrible grief in the wake of her death.
The play was entered into the contest, and quali-fied for the ABCDE provin-cial drama showcase.
“I was astounded to find that I’d won,” she said about learning the news in an email.
“I stood up, and said to the people around me, ‘Guys, I won.’
Then she zipped into the theatre to tell drama coach and teacher Damon Fultz the news, even though he was in the middle of a light-ing demonstration.
“It was like a really big deal. I was freaking out,”
she remembered.The script was written
by Rubeniuk in about four days, and it has a cast of 11 characters.
The “prestigious” win for Holding On is a first for the drama department at G.W. Graham, said drama teacher Fultz.
“It’s also really cool to know there were 200 plays entered and hers was one of the three picked by play-wright John Lazarus,” he
said.It has an underlying
message about mortality and dealing with loss, with “very beautiful moments, and some that are very funny,” Fultz said. “This is a very personal story and it touches on the impact that one person can have on other people’s lives.”
The play is both a ghost story and a love story.
“It’s about dealing with grief and coping with the
loss, even though it might be all you know,” says Rubeniuk.
The friend who is left behind finds out he can still see and talk to his friend, Morgan. She finds a way to release her hold on her friend, so he can let go with love.
“I love writing. It’s a huge hobby,” she said.
Sounds like a heavy topic. Why did she pick such a dark topic?
“I know that we all strug-gle with loss. It’s bound to happen in a lifetime,” she replies. “I just think it’s good to know you’re not alone.”
The three winning plays of the 2015 YouthWrite competition: Holding On by Megan Rubeniuk, Paul and Carla’s Road Trip by Josie Aileen Patterson, and Sat Sri Akal India by Sawkshi Sharma.
Grade 12 G.W. Graham student Megan Rubeniuk, seen here with drama teacher Damon Fultz, will be present-ing her play, Holding On, at the Sears B.C. Drama Festival in New Westminster. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS
Canadian funnyman Brent Butt returns
From smal l - town Saskatchewan to the big screen, Brent Butt is one of Canada’s funniest and most successful comedians.
“I love what I do”, he says. “I still look at it as just having coffee. Only now it’s with a thou-sand or so people at a time.”
Comedic storyteller, gifted writer, producer and actor, Brent created the hilarious Corner Gas show. It was an instant hit with unprecedented ratings, an International Emmy Award nomination (2004) and earning the moniker Funniest Show on TV from TV Guide readers.
To follow up Canada’s No. 1 comedy, Brent created “Hiccups”, a sitcom starring himself and Nancy Robertson winning multiple LEO Awards. Brent made the transition to the big screen as writer and star of the feature film “No Clue”. Fans anxiously awaited the much-anticipated return to Dog River with “Corner Gas: The Movie”, which hit theatres December 3, 2014. Brent is a regular at Just For Laughs as well as appearing on numerous national and inter-national television programs. His meteoric career was the subject of an episode of the cul-tural affairs program Adrienne Clarkson Presents.
Brent won four Canadian Comedy Awards for Best Male Stand-up (2001), Best Male TV Performance (Corner Gas, 2004, 2005) and Best Writing - TV Series (Corner Gas, 2004). His
Songs of regret with a tinge of twang at Bozzini’sUK country duo My Darling
Clementine are kicking off a West Coast tour at Bozzini’s Upstairs on Thursday, March 26.
Expect songs of betrayal, regret, anger, guilt, revenge and hurt.
Classic duets were at their peak in the late 60s and 1970s, the likes of George Jones and Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and Porter Waggoner, Johnny and June and more. Fast forward 40 years and those timeless songs are alive and well in the hands of the Michael Weston King and Lou Dalgleish of My Darling Clementine.
Weston King, a seasoned trou-badour, and former leader of alt-country pioneers The Good Sons, is known as one of Britain’s finest singer songwriters. With 10 solo albums, four were with The Good
Sons. Always on the road, both solo and touring with the likes of Nick Cave, John Cale, Guy Clark, Steve Earle, Roger McGuinn. His collab-orations with Chris Hillman, Ron Sexsmith, Jackie Leven and the legendary Townes Van Zandt (who cut his own version of Michael’s song Riding The Range), have only enhanced his considerable musical reputation.
Dalgleish is quite simply one of, if not the finest female singer in the UK. She has been praised by, and worked with the likes of Elvis Costello, Bryan Ferry, The Brodsky Quartet, and many more. From 1993 – 2000 she released for albums (including the acclaimed Live at Ronnie Scotts) that showed off her unique songwriting, her stunning vocals and unique inter-
pretation of other works. A long-time Costello fan she can also be seen appearing in the show, They Call Her Natasha, a stage show based on his life and music.
Both King and Dalgleish had independent music careers but after 10 years of marriage, the two turned their efforts towards a joint project. The result was How Do You Plead?, an album that took the country/Americana world by storm. The debut single,100,000 Words became a BBC Radio 2 hit, and the band and album went on to win awards on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Michael Weston King and Lou Dalgleish bring the classic duets of the 60s and 70s alive with My Darling Clementine, March 26.
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Our spring market is here: Is it time for a move?The sun is shining, the trees are in bloom and the air is fresh
and full of promise. The nice weather brings a whole new crop of home buyers, and another year of record low interest rates brings more interested buyers into the market than ever. This has always been a favorite time of year in the real estate market, but there are other factors that come into play to make this a good time to sell your house.
The lowest interest rates in decades have made a huge impact on the real estate market. Loans are more affordable, creating more investment possibilities for second homes, trade-up or scale-down buyers, which in turn frees up more starter homes for first time buyers.
When there are more buyers than there are houses available for sale, the advantage goes to the seller. However, there are a few challenges that may meet the seller. When many houses go on to the market at once, the competition between sellers increases and gives buyers more to compare and choose from. Buyers may be less interested in compromising their specific needs for a house and may take longer to look around at other houses that are for sale before committing to a purchase.
Having an expanded number of competitors isn’t really a problem if the market is moving at a lively rate. Your real estate agent will provide you with listing and sales data from your local Multiple Listing service. You can find out how many homes similar to yours have come on to the market and have sold recently. By using these resources, you can see how long houses have been sitting on the market before selling and how much they are selling for. This will give you a good idea of how long it will take to sell your own home and what your asking price
should be.When there is more competition, it is even more important
to take the effort to make your home as enticing as possible. First impressions are so important and the first place to start is at the front door. You want your potential buyers to take a second look as they drive down the street, so ask your real estate agent to look at your home with an objective eye and give you some inexpensive tips on how to improve the looks of your house. Often things like a good cleaning, a coat of paint, a new doormat, a little landscaping and a few minor repairs are all that is necessary to make your home ready to sell. But these gestures can be a decisive factor in whether or not your home sells in a timely fashion. So don’t overlook these details.
When you are house-shopping, if you are shown a house that you like, make an offer that you feel is appropriate. Your REALTOR® cannot tell you how much to offer but can give you information about the selling prices of similar homes in the area. Your REALTOR® will present your offer to the sellers. They have three choices – they can accept, reject, or counter your offer. If the house is a new listing, or if your offer is very low, they may decide to hold out for something better. Prices that are not negotiable at the beginning of a listing period may become flexible as time goes on. If you want to buy the house, make the seller an offer you are comfortable with.
To maximize the possibility that the owners will accept your offer, make the offer as “clean” as possible. Be as flexible as possible about scheduling the closing date to fit the sellers’ moving plans. Each situation is different, but the simpler the offer, the more likely the sellers are to accept it.
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A list of entertaining events for March 12 to 18
March 14 - The Chilliwack Metropolitan Orchestra present its winter concert,
Viva Espana, at the Chilliwack Cultural Centre at 7:30 p.m. It’s an evening of Spanish music by Granados, De Falla, Bizet and more, plus special guests gui-tarist Rod Swanson, vocalist Tiffany Deloof, and flamenco dancer Karen Pitkethly. Tickets
$25/adults, $15/stu-dents and available at the Centre Box Office, or by calling 604-391-SHOW(7469) or online at www.chilliwackcul-turalcentre.ca.
March 14 - Victoria-based Irish traditional band, Crikey Mor,
will be celebrating St. Paddy’s Day at Harrison Memorial Hall at 8 p.m. They’ll be bringing a sense of fun, or what the Irish call ‘craic’, with a genuine love and respect for traditional music. Tickets $22 and available online at www.harrisonfestival.com or
by phone 604-796-3664.
March 15 - A fundrais-ing jam session for the Wounded Warriors Weekend will be held at the Vedder Legion. Starts at 2 p.m. and will run throughout the day. Admission by mini-mum donation of $5.
The Wounded Warriors Weekend will bring hundreds of soldiers and first responders dealing with post trau-matic stress disorder to Chilliwack this summer, at no cost to the partici-pants.
March 15 - Rock.
It Boy Entertainment presents comedian Brent Butt at the Cultural Centre at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $39.50 and available at the Centre Box Office, or by calling 604-391-SHOW(7469) or online at www.chilli-wackculturalcentre.ca.
March 16 - Chase Padgett brings his one-man show, 6 Guitars, to the Cultural Centre at 7:30 p.m. The show is about six characters who have nothing in common but guitar, and their love of music. Tickets $25 and avail-able at the Centre Box Office, or by calling 604-391-SHOW(7469) or online at www.chilli-wackculturalcentre.ca.
March 18 - Long & McQuade (45870 Cheam Ave.) is offering a free music clinic at 7 p.m. today. Exploring the World of Bass Guitar is all about get-ting the most out of your instrument, from advanced techniques to locking in with a groove and how to sit right in a mix. Inquiries and registration: Brad Fry at [email protected].
March 4-15 - The UFV theatre depart-ment presents Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare until March 15 with evening performances at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday mati-nees at 2 p.m., as well as school matinees at noon. More info: ufv.ca/theatre, or 604-795-2814. Tickets can be purchased online, over the phone or in person at the UFV Performance Theatre at 45635 Yale Rd.
Now to March 28 - Robert Harms has his solo exhibition, Art in Harms Way, in the Art Gallery at the Cultural Centre Feb. 19 to March 28. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Wednesdays to Saturday, plus some show evenings. Free admission.
The Sí:tel Coast Salish Baskets exhibi-tion is on display in the Chambers Gallery at the Chilliwack Museum until December. Museum hours are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Mondays to Fridays. Admission $3/general and $2/seniors and stu-dents.
Seven Days is a free A&E listing published in print every Wednesday, and online every Thursday. For more information, or to submit your event, email it to Jenna Hauck at [email protected] (please include a contact name and number), or call 604-702-5576.
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The calendar says Spring arrives in the month of March, I think it arrived sometime last month for us. We see many people out walking their dogs these days and sometimes don’t really realize the great service and companionship dogs bring into our lives. Our Lions in Canada have an organization called Lions Foundation of Canada, Dog Guides. A great deal of information can be found at www.dogguides.com . These dogs provide service beyond what people normally expect as a guide dog for the visually impaired (Canine Vision). Service dogs are also trained as Hearing Assist, Seizure Response, Autism and Diabetic Alert. There are several of these service dogs making a difference in the lives of people in our area. You can read much more about the programs on the website.
Mt Cheam Lions chartered the rst Lions Club in Canada made up exclusively of ladies, the Chilliwack Stellers Jay in 1988. This club has many great projects supporting the community. On March 21st they have their annual Spring Fling; tickets are $15 each for dinner, dance and a dessert auction. Give me a call if you need tickets. The desserts are fabulous.
Many things come along with Spring, High School Graduation is a once in a lifetime event for Students before they embark on life as an adult. To assist Students further their education the Mt Cheam Lions awards a scholarship at each high school. This year the Scholarship is valued at $1,750, currently all funds raised at our spaghetti dinners go to the scholarship fund. Our next dinner is on March 27th in our hall at 45580 Spadina.
Did you know that the International Association of Lions Clubs has been a partner with the United Nations for 70 years? A ceremony recognizing this partnership was held at the UN Headquarters on March 7, 2015.
Remember that where there is a need there is a Lion. If you would like more information on any of the topics I’ve written on please give me a call. I’m Allan Hunt with the Mt Cheam Lions.
Stellers Jay Lions Spring Fling March 21st
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The River and the Road is coming to the Acoustic Emporium Friday March 13 at 7 p.m.
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Valuable lessons in medicine are being served up throughout March, through the Chilliwack Division of Family Practice, CEPCO and the UBC Family Medicine Residency Program.
The 7th Annual Mini Med School continues March 17, 24 and 31 at the Chilliwack Cultural Centre. Those who attend will have the chance to speak with local doctors and other health care professionals on four separate topics.
The sessions are informal discussions, and there is no cost to attend.
March 10 dealt with how to really talk to your doctor and get the most out of your visits. Those with a family doctor learned how to have a better relationship with him or her. Those without a fam-ily doctor or nurse practitioner and are looking for one, found out about the one point of contact to help them.
On March 17 the lecture touches on sleep strate-gies and melatonin.
On March 24, the discussion will surround vac-cines, and on March 31, the topic is dementia.
Registration is appreciated, by calling 604-702-4757, but walk-ins are also welcome.
The sessions are 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
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The Chilliwack Chiefs fin-ished off their first round playoff series Tuesday night at Prospera Centre.
A 4-2 win in game five sent the Coquitlam Express packing and sent the Chiefs on to the second round, where they will face either the Prince George Spruce Kings or Langley Rivermen.
While the Chiefs rest up, that series goes to a sixth game tomorrow, and possibly a seventh game Wednesday.
PG leads the series 3-2 after an overtime win in Langley Monday night.
On the heels of a devastating 7-2 loss in game four, Chilliwack faced a demoralized Express team in the opening minutes of their game five.
An early goal by Jake Hand added dismayed and defeated to the list, with Coquitlam act-ing like a dead team skating.
Hand’s fourth goal in this series came at 3:59.
Express netminder Braden Krogfoss, pressed into action in relief of high-ly ineffective starter Chris Tai, looked just as inept as Vincent Desharnais flung a puck on net from the point. Krogfoss misplayed it badly, lunging to the left while kicking the rebound to the right, leaving an empty cage for Hand.
Frustration and an ill-advised penalty led to the second Chilliwack goal.
Joey Santucci was flagged for cross-checking a Chief in a goal mouth scrum, after the whistle had blown.
On the ensuing power play, Brandon Tkachuk ripped a point shot that car-omed off the end boards and back in front. Brandon Potomak poked the puck past Krogfoss and Scott
Davidson tapped it in for his second of the series.
Shots on goal through 20 minutes favoured the Chiefs 19-8.
“We knew they were going to come out fight-ing, with intensity, and we needed to match that,” said forward Mason Boh, mak-ing his second appearance in the series after coming back from injury. “We had a very strong start.”
But the tables turned in the middle frame as the visitors found their despera-tion and cut the Chilliwack lead in half. Brett Supinski got his stick on a Daniel Fritz point shot, deflecting the puck past Chiefs keeper David Jacobson at 2:32.
The Express almost had another late in the period.
Supinski thread-ed a pass across the goal-mouth to Brendan Lamont, who looked to be shooting at an empty net. But the Langley native took too much time load-ing up his shot, and Jacobson stretched
post to post to make the stop.
Shots on goal through 40 minutes favoured the Chiefs 27-20.
“Up two goals we might have gotten a bit compla-cent,” Boh said. “We knew we had to tighten up, and once they got their first goal it was all about how we responded.”
“Coach (Jason Tatarnic) didn’t have to say much between the second and third periods,” Boh contin-ued. “We didn’t want to go back to Coquitlam for game six and we motivated our-selves.”
A scary moment hap-pened with 8:36 to go in this one when Coquitlam’s Dustin Cave leveled Chilliwack’s Rory Bell with a high hit in the neutral zone.
Bell collapsed and stayed on the ice for several min-utes.
Meanwhile, Cave was forced to answer for the hit, dropping the mitts with Davidson.
When the dust settled, a wobbly Bell was taken to the dressing room and Cave was given five minutes and a game misconduct for a blow to the head.
“He (Bell) was out cold for close to a minute, and that was a little scary. We’re all worried, and our prayers are with him right now,” Boh said. “But from what I heard from the trainers he was responding well in the locker room.”
Less than two minutes later the home team got the insurance goal it needed. Potomak took the puck hard
to the net on a rush down the left wing.
Boh followed the play, cashing in the rebound for his first of the series and a 3-1 Chiefs lead.
“It was a two-on-two and Potomak made a nice play to beat his man wide,” Boh said. “He threw it on net and luckily it bounced right to my stick.”
Coquitlam’s hopes were officially dashed moments later when top scorer Corey Mackin was given a 10 min-ute misconduct.
Coquitlam scored a late one on the power play, with Colton Kerfoot pulling the trigger.
Krogfoss came to the bench with 1:08 to go and
Kawaguchi iced it 11 sec-onds later, scoring his fourth of the series into the empty net.
Boh and company now sit back and hope the Prince George/Langley series goes the distance. Word is the Rivermen may have lost Marcus Vela and Gage Torrel to injuries.
Chilliwack would doubt-less prefer to face a softened up Rivermen squad and spare themselves long bus trips to PG.
“It’s just better for us if we get three days rest and prep time for whoever we play,” Boh said, careful to not express a preference. “They’re both great teams. They both compete hard.
Hopefully they wear each other out a bit.”
The second round series starts Friday night at Prospera Centre, with a 7 p.m. puck drop.
Game two is Saturday, also in Chilliwack.
● In other series around the league the Vernon Vipers eliminated Merritt in four games and the Penticton Vees downed West Kelowna in five.
Nanaimo and Powell River held 3-2 leads on Alberni Valley and Victoria, heading into sixth games Tuesday night (after Progress press deadlines).
Power forward Scott Davidson had a goal and a scrap in Tuesday night’s playoff win over the Coquitlam Express. His team is prepping for the start of the second round of the BCHL playoffs on Friday. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS
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The GW Graham senior boys basketball team hopes adversity does build character, that the trials they’ve
faced through a diffi-cult regular season will serve them well in the end.
The Grizzlies have qualified for AA provincials, and hit the court tonight against Richmond’s Henry James Cambie Crusaders.
With a string of inju-ry woes behind them, they believe they are healthy and peaking at the right time.
But, will that be enough to earn the school its first ever pro-
vincial b-ball title?The Grizzlies fin-
ished the regular sea-son 10-0 and punched their ticket to the dance two weeks ago with a one-sided win over Langley Christian.
The Grizzlies pum-meled the Lightning 92-68 with Phil Weston recording 25 points and 20 rebounds.
“We’d already beat them two times, and we had confidence,” Weston said. “But they’d also beaten (No. 6 ranked Delview) in their previous game, so we didn’t know how well they’d play. I think by halftime, we knew we were playing really well and knew we were going to win it.”
GWG lost by four points to Surrey’s Southridge Storm in their next outing, the Fraser Valley champion-ship game.
No shame in that.The Storm are the
second ranked AA team in the province, and GWG guard Gabe Mannes said his crew was encouraged by the result.
“If we can have a good game against Southridge we can basically beat anyone,” Mannes said. “Honestly, I was expecting us to lose that game by 15-20. It ended up being one of our best games and it gives us a lot of confi-dence heading into pro-vincials.”
We mentioned inju-ries off the top, and it’s true the Grizzlies were a banged up bunch ear-lier this year.
At one point, three starters were out with concussions or other ailments.
“At the end of January, he (Weston) was injured, I was injured, Bret Westad, Curtis Kmyta,” Ryan Trottier said. “We had about seven players playing.”
“Even now, we’re using nine rolls of tape every practice or game,” he laughed. “It’s been tough, but it’s led to other people stepping up. It’s shown our depth that we’ve kept winning through all these inju-ries.”
The recipe for suc-cess, according to Mannes, is simple. Each morning around 6:30 a.m., head coach
Jake Mouritzen opens the doors and players flood into the gym.
“It’s dif ficult to do sometimes, espe-cially when you’ve got homework and stuff,” Mannes said. “But we wouldn’t be anywhere close to where we are without that work. Our shooting and rebound-ing keeps us in games, and being in the gym every morning is what makes us a good shoot-ing team.”
Shooting well at pro-vincials will be a chal-lenge, with the spotlight shining brighter than it has at any point his sea-son.
The Grizzlies will face the best of the best in pressure packed games.
“I think we are going to do very well,” Weston said. “The way we played against Southridge showed us how good a team we can be.”
“We’ll have some nerves for maybe the first quarter of the first game,” Trottier added. “We’ve been waiting for this the last few years, and once we hit our first few shots we’ll settle in. I’m so excited.”
GWG’s opener against the Crusaders tips off at 6:45 p.m. at the Langley Events Centre.
A win against H.J. Cambie will set up a huge second round match against the St. Michael’s University School Blue Jags.
The Victoria power house is the top ranked team coming into the tournament.
“Southridge was No. 1 most of the year, and we played with them, so we can play with anybody,” Mannes said. “St. Mikes is the other top team and if we beat them, we’ve beat the best and we just go from there.”
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Other members of the Grizzlies not already mentioned are Mateo Urbano, Jordon Breuker, Josh Morgan, Tyler Sprott, Colton Cymbaluk, Jon Steele and Kyle Helsloot.
The coaches are Mouritzen, Mike Mannes and Adam Smith.
The managers are Ashley Weisbrod, Taylor Magill and Jeevin Ercanbrack and the trainers are Braydon Winger and Elijah Schellenberg.
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5 IN MEMORIAM
REMEMBERING...
KRISTA NIKKELDecember 20, 1979 -
January 30, 2014
Think of you every day.Love you and miss you.
I will remember you always. - Les
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108 BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
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A family owned enterprise with over 55 years history, seeks a highly motivated person to be part of our successful offi ce team located in Chilliwack, BC. The primary focus of this position is to prepare clear, complete, and accurate product and detail drawings from rough or detailed sketches to meet the require-ments allowing them to be used as production, catalogue, submit-tal and / or customer approval drawings. This will require effective communication with sales, distribution, engineering, and production staff.
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124 FARM WORKERS
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Must be physically fi t, be able to lift up to 35 lbs, and work in all weather conditions. Tractor exp an asset. Full and P/T positions available. Wage increase varies with experience.
Fraser Valley Specialty Poultry at 4540 Simmons Rd. Chilli-wack BC. are looking for Pro-cessing plant Worker/Butcher Helper for their processing Plant division. Full time 40 hr. per week and rate pay $15.26, per hr. Must be willing to do shift and week-end work schedule. Processing plant ex-perience is a must. Prepare and processing of all lines and types of poultry. Good attitude and team member. Speak and write english, secondary edu-cation is an asset.
Leaseholder/OperatorCultus Lake Park requires a leaseholder/operator for the convenience store located in Sunnyside Campground dur-ing the months of April through September. The Park wishes to engage a leaseholder/op-erator to manage the store. The purpose of this Request for Proposal is to solicit sub-missions from qualifi ed candi-dates on creative and innova-tive ideas to operate the Sunnyside Store located in Sunnyside Campground at 3405 Columbia Valley High-way.
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Chilliwack Bibles for Missions Store is looking to fi ll the position of Part Time Assistant Store Man-ager The Assistant Store Manag-er must have strong relational qualities and have the skills to train staff and volunteers to effec-tively operate the Store. The As-sistant Store Manager must re-fl ect Christ in his/her behavior and be vibrant, passionate and have an entrepreneurial spirit. The Assistant Store Manager must understand the needs and wants of a Thrift Store customer and motivate staff and volunteers to deliver exceptional customer service. A full job description is available on request. This posi-tion is for 25 hours a week. Previ-ous management skills are a must.
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Fraser Valley Specialty Poultry at 4540 Simmons Road Chilli-wack,BC has full time opening for Shift Supervisors.Experience , 2-5 years in poul-try processing plant and 1 year minimum, as a Supervisor or team leader. Must be willing to put in extra time like evening and week-ends.Has to be team player and leader. Pay rate starting at $23.50 per hour.
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It is with great sadness we grieve the passing of a dear man, Anselmo Sergio (Sam) Basso on March 4th, 2015 in his 92nd year. He passed away of Kidney failure with his family by his side. He had been in Christine Morrison Hospice, Mission, BC for ten days where he received tender loving care.Sam was born in Italy, August 7th, 1923. In 1926, he immigrated with his parents Sante and Anna Basso and his sister Kay to Toronto. Sante was employed as a stone mason and at 15 years old Sam joined his father and learned his trade. Sam was a fi ne stone mason and bricklayer and built many beautiful fi replaces. In 1944 he joined the Royal Canadian Engineers and was stationed in Chilliwack, BC. He said he always wanted to come back to BC and he did, many years later.He married Betty Carrol in 1946 and together they raised 4 sons. In 1957 Sam and Betty moved to California where Sam was employed in construction as a bricklayer, building homes and installing fi replaces. In 1975 Sam and Betty moved back to Toronto, the boys were grown and remained in the US. Sadly a year later, in 1975 Betty passed away of cancer.Sam and Alice met in Toronto through family members while Alice was on a holiday in July from BC. It was love a fi rst sight, he asked her to marry him after the third date. He moved to BC where they were married on October 28, 1978 and lived and loved for 36 years.Sam began work in construction in Stanley Park, Vancouver in 1979, where he was employed until he retired in 1988. Sam and Alice then moved to Agassiz.He leaves to mourn his wife Alice of Agassiz, his sister Duilia Palermo of Toronto; his three sons, Paul (Candice) in Arizona, Danny (Jody) in Florida and Tom (Debbie) in Chilliwack; his second family Bonnie (Fred Townsend), Tom (Bonnie) Berkiw, Joe (Soili) Berkiw, Mary Ann (Art) Yates, Kathleen Berkiw (Milton White) and Carolyn Berkiw. Grandpa Sam was much loved by his combined families of 27 grandchildren and 28 great grandchildren; as well as many nieces and nephews.He was predeceased by his parents Sante and Nettie (D’Andrea) Basso, his fi rst wife Betty, his sister Kay, brother in law Frank Francheschini, son Larry, granddaughter Sharma Basso and grand-son Noah Yates.After moving to Agassiz, Sam and his friend Cliff would walk to town and join Wes, Larry and Tor for coffee each morning for many years. Sam loved to fl oor curl at the Friendship House as well as dance on Saturday night with the jammers. He made many lasting friends, but when his failing health caused him to leave his social life, he still continued to keep in contact with old friends.Sam always loved to fi sh and hunt and he spent many wonderful years fi shing in Canada and California. If there were fi sh, Sam could always catch them.He loved to repair things and when he fi nished and everything worked well again, he would say “never underestimated an Italian.”A celebration of life will be held on May 23, 2015 at 2pm at the Friendship House on Morrow Road. In lieu of fl owers a donation may be made to the Christine Morrison Hospice at 7324 Hurd St., Mission, BC, V2V 3H5, or a charity of your choice. 3/15W_BO11
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139 MEDICAL/DENTAL
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7 OBITUARIES
BrulotteNorman (Norm)Nov. 2, 1941 - Mar. 6, 2015
Norm Brulotte, resident of Chilliwack, passed away Fri-day, March 6, 2015 at Cas-cade Hospice at the age of 73. He will be missed by his wife, Lucy; daughter Leah (Matt); son Floyd; grandson Braden Adams. At Norm’s request there will be no service, cremation, burial at a later date.
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Marlon-LambertElfrida Vivien (nee Plimmer)
March 16, 1918 - February 25, 2015
Elfrida was born in London, England and came to Canada as a War Bride in June of 1945. She was a very creative individual. She could be found doing pottery, painting, fabric sculpture, weaving, drawing and poetry. Her favourite fi eld was weaving for which she won a number of national awards. Much of her artwork was inspired by animals and nature. She was also one of the fi rst organic farmers fi rst, on Lulu Island and at the farm in Ryder Lake. She raised free-range fl ocks of geese, chickens, turkeys, pigs, Charo-lais cattle, goats and most re-cently, llamas. The llamas provided company and lots of fl eece for her weaving. Elfrida loved all animals with the ex-ception of domestic cats. She was happiest driving her trac-tor around her Elk View farm followed by a trail of dogs and llamas. Her father taught Elfri-da how to drive during her late teens. During her life she drove all manner of vehicles including large farm lorries. She continued to drive into her eighties. Elfrida attended Roe-dean school and was enrolled in art school when World War II started. It was at an art class where she met her hus-band, David, at an Art School course in England in 1942. She was in the Women’s Land Army and he was in the Cana-dian Army Overseas. David was later an eminent BC pot-ter and ceramicist. He pre-de-ceased Elfrida in 1985. Elfrida raised four children: James, Jonathan, Jeremy and June. She had 11 grandchildren and many great-grandchildren. The farm was the hub of life for Elfrida. She loved living surrounded by her animals, art and gardens. Elfrida was still active and running the farm into her eighties. She lived her life on her own terms and with her own unique “style.” El-frida passed away a few weeks ago short of her 97th birthday in Chilliwack. A Tea in honour of her life will be held on March 16, 2015 at the Chilliwack Airport Cafe from 2:00 until 3:30 pm. Online con-dolences may be offered at www.woodlawn-mtcheam.ca.
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45865 Hocking AvenueChilliwack BC V2P 1B5
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356 RUBBISH REMOVAL
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736 HOMES FOR RENT
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Shih tzu, male, 4 mos, one left, $500. Call (604)316-9495 or 604-795-5626
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548 FURNITURE
OAK CHINA cabinet, $275; oak walnut unit, $250; lg LZ boy chair, $125; dresser, older, $195; bedside table, $30; 2 upright vacuums, $10. Call (604)795-3139 before 7pm
560 MISC. FOR SALE
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612 BUSINESSES FOR SALE
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Garrison, 3 bdrm townhouse for sale, rec room, 2.5 bath, open kitchen with raised is-land/eating bar, lots of natural light, 9’ ceilings, fl oor to ceiling rock f/p, 6 appl., garage, cov-ered deck & patio, walk to shopping, schools & river. For more info email: [email protected]
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CHILLIWACK: The Imperial - 9143 Edward St. Clean, Spacious 2 bdrm condo, nr hosp. cls to South Gate mall, restaurants, bus, insuite lndry, gas f/p $850/mo. Mar16/Apr1. NS/NP. 604-306-9710
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VEDDER, walking distance to GW school, 4 bdrm with ground level suite, lg deck, avail mar 15. $2000/m + util. Call (604)791-0409
739 MOTELS, HOTELS
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Re: The estate of Agnes North of #65-45175 Wells
Rd., Chilliwack, BC.Deceased
Creditors and others hav-ing claims against the es-tate of Agnes North are hereby notifi ed under sec-tion 38 of the Trustee Act (British Columbia.) The particulars of their claims should be sent to the Ex-ecutor Richard North, #84-9207 82 St. Fort St John, BC on or before March 10, 2015, after which date the Executor will distribute the estate among the parties entitled to it, having regard to the claims of which the Executor then has notice.
551 GARAGE SALES
Sardis46425 Ranchero Dr
Mar 11-19th (except Sunday)
9am - 6pmEstate sale. Power & and hand tools, misc household, some furniture
736 HOMES FOR RENT
First Place
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We believe that quality truly counts.That means we stock only the freshest premium meats
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$$2299995 LB. MINIMUM
9999¢¢
7979¢¢
/100g
FRESH LEAN FRESH LEAN GROUND BEEFGROUND BEEF
BLACKBLACKFOREST FOREST
HAMHAM
$6.60/kg/LB
$$889999
$$334949
$$115050 $$221919
$$449999
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FRESH FRESH NEW YORK NEW YORK
STEAKSSTEAKS
FRESH FRESH LEAN PORK LEAN PORK
CHOPSCHOPS
BEEF BEEF SAUSAGE SAUSAGE (GARLIC)(GARLIC)
ALL ALL HOMEMADE HOMEMADE PEPPERONIPEPPERONI
IMPORTED IMPORTED GERMAN GERMAN
EDAMEDAM
IMPORTED IMPORTED MILD GOUDAMILD GOUDA
FRESH FRESH BONELESS SKINLESS BONELESS SKINLESS
CHICKEN CHICKEN BREASTBREAST
ITALIAN OR ITALIAN OR REGULAR REGULAR
BRATWURSTBRATWURST
GYPSY GYPSY PORK PORK
STEAKSSTEAKS
BARON BARON OF BEEF OF BEEF ROASTROAST
$19.82/kg
$7.70/kg $11.00/kg
$11.00/kg $13.21/kg/LB
/LB
/100g
$$118989$$221919
/100g
/100g
2 kg pc
/100g/ea
/LB
$$335959$7.92/kg/LB
/LB /LB
$50GIFT CARD
In-store purchase. Must submit this ad.
SALE PRICES EFFECTIVEMARCH 11-19, 2015
9382 Nowell St.(located downtown behind the Post Offi ce)
