Price 60¢ chilliwacktimes.com Chiefs billet loves being their ‘mom’ 10 T U E S D A Y INSIDE: Chilliwack’s top cop puts crime hot spots in her sights Pg. 3 October 15, 2013 NEWS, SPORTS, WEATHER & ENTERTAINMENT Manslaughter verdict in Planje case BY PAUL J. HENDERSON [email protected]A Chilliwack court acquit- ted Steven Frederickson on Friday of the second- degree murder of Robert- Jan Planje but found him guilty of the lesser-included offence of manslaughter. Crown counsel will now seek dan- gerous or long-term offender status for the 47-year-old Frederickson. While Supreme Court Justice Wil- liam Grist found reasonable doubt in the Crown assertion that Fred- erickson had enough intent for a second-degree murder charge, he found the accused man’s credibil- ity lacking. “I feel the accused to be a wit- ness whose evidence could not be accepted as credible,” Grist said Friday in court. Grist found a number of Fred- erickson’s statements in court and to police to be “improbable” and “patent inventions.” Planje’s body was discovered down an embankment off a for- estry road near Hope on Dec. 30, 2010, more than two weeks after he was last seen at the Ashwell Road home he shared with Frederickson, a crack addict who he had rented a room to since the fall. The night before Planje’s death, Frederickson said the two spent an evening together drinking wine, with Planje smoking marijuana and Fred- erickson smoking crack cocaine. Frederickson—who is deaf and testified and listened throughout the trial since February with sign language translators—claimed he woke up the next morning in Plan- je’s bed in his underwear. He then testified that he had been sexu- ally assaulted, a claim Grist found unbelievable since the 64-year-old Planje was a five-foot-two trans- gendered individual with female genitalia. FUNDRAISER HARVEST FOR HEALTH Sharron Ho/TIMES Chilliwack Chiefs goalie Josh Halpenny adds the finishing touch to the team’s scarecrow scene, built for Harvest for Health, a Chilliwack Hospital & Health Care Foundation fundraiser, at the Hampton Inn on Oct. 10. Charges in pub stabbing T he man accused of stabbing two local men at a down- town Chilliwack pub on Sept. 29 turned himself in to police on Thursday. Dustin Russell, 20, of Chilliwack, faces three counts in connection with the incident that saw Adam Teskey and Jake Barstad stabbed in a supposed fight over a game of pool at District Public House. One man was arrested at the scene but later released, and Mounties were looking for a sec- ond man. Russell is charged with aggravat- ed assault, assault with a weapon and assault causing bodily harm. Both Teskey and Barstad have since been released from hospital and are recovering. “This is a great conclusion to the investigation by the Serious Crime Section,” said RCMP spokesperson Const. Cynthia Kershaw in a press release Friday. “Investigators are thankful the alleged suspect did the right thing by turning himself in.” Russell has been released from custody and his next court appear- ance is set for Oct. 22. Crown seeks dangerous or long-term offender status for the murder of transgendered man See PLANJE, Page 6 SCAN WITH LAYAR FOR MORE PHOTOS 8645 Young Street, Chilliwack 604-792-5151 www.jadamandsons.com 06198229 Plumbing Service Department Premium Pre-Owned Vehicles at Live Market Pricing oconnordodgechrysler.com SHOP OUR ENTIRE PREOWNED INVENTORY NOW WITH SHOP OUR ENTIRE PREOWNED INVENTORY NOW WITH DL 5952
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T U E S D A Y
INSIDE: Chilliwack’s top cop puts crime hot spots in her sights Pg. 3
October 15, 2013
N E W S , S P O R T S , W E A T H E R & E N T E R T A I N M E N T
AChilliwack court acquit-ted Steven Fredericksonon Friday of the second-degree murder of Robert-
Jan Planje but found him guiltyof the lesser-included offence ofmanslaughter.
Crown counsel will now seek dan-gerous or long-term offender statusfor the 47-year-old Frederickson.
While Supreme Court Justice Wil-
liam Grist found reasonable doubtin the Crown assertion that Fred-erickson had enough intent for asecond-degree murder charge, hefound the accused man’s credibil-ity lacking.
“I feel the accused to be a wit-ness whose evidence could not beaccepted as credible,” Grist said
Friday in court.Grist found a number of Fred-
erickson’s statements in court andto police to be “improbable” and“patent inventions.”
Planje’s body was discovereddown an embankment off a for-estry road near Hope on Dec. 30,2010, more than two weeks after he
was last seen at the Ashwell Roadhome he shared with Frederickson,a crack addict who he had rented aroom to since the fall.
The night before Planje’s death,Frederickson said the two spent anevening together drinking wine, withPlanje smoking marijuana and Fred-erickson smoking crack cocaine.
Frederickson—who is deaf andtestified and listened throughoutthe trial since February with signlanguage translators—claimed hewoke up the next morning in Plan-je’s bed in his underwear. He thentestified that he had been sexu-ally assaulted, a claim Grist foundunbelievable since the 64-year-oldPlanje was a five-foot-two trans-gendered individual with femalegenitalia.
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Chilliwack Chiefs goalie Josh Halpenny adds the finishing touch to the team’s scarecrow scene, built for Harvest for Health, a Chilliwack Hospital & Health CareFoundation fundraiser, at the Hampton Inn on Oct. 10.
Chargesin pubstabbingThe man accused of stabbing
two local men at a down-town Chilliwack pub on Sept.
29 turned himself in to police onThursday.
Dustin Russell, 20, of Chilliwack,faces three counts in connectionwith the incident that saw AdamTeskey and Jake Barstad stabbedin a supposed fight over a game ofpool at District Public House.
One man was arrested at thescene but later released, andMounties were looking for a sec-ond man.
Russell is charged with aggravat-ed assault, assault with a weaponand assault causing bodily harm.
Both Teskey and Barstad havesince been released from hospitaland are recovering.
“This is a great conclusion to theinvestigation by the Serious CrimeSection,” said RCMP spokespersonConst. Cynthia Kershaw in a pressrelease Friday. “Investigators arethankful the alleged suspect did theright thing by turning himself in.”
Russell has been released fromcustody and his next court appear-ance is set for Oct. 22.
Crown seeks dangerous or long-term offenderstatus for the murder of transgendered man
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Chilliwack’s top cop says theRCMP have doubled downon efforts to target highcrime areas in the city since
statistics released in July showedlocal Mounties had some of the low-est clearance rates in the province.
Supt. Deanne Burleigh told theTimes that the Upper Fraser ValleyRegional Detachment began pour-ing resources into high crime areasafter Statistics Canada released theirlatest numbers.
“My philosophy is intelligence-ledtarget-driven policing,” she said. “Assoon as we took a look at the num-bers and took a look at our calls forservice—where we needed to target,where our hot spots were—we puttogether a uniformed team for tar-geted downtown enforcement, look-ing specifically at the hot spots andour prolific offenders.”
Burleigh said officers checked up
on prolific offenders and those withcurfews and outstanding warrants.
For the month of August, theMounties crime reduction initiativesaw officers target bicycle riders whoweren’t wearing ahelmet.
Helmetless bikeriders might notbe keeping peopleup at night, buta missing helmetgives Mounties theright to questionbike riders whoseem suspiciouslyout of place intheir surroundings.
“If you’re on a bicycle at 2 a.m. inthe morning in a residential areawith a backpack and no real reasonto be there, we want to talk to you,”
Burleigh said.The strategy has had positive
effects, she said.“What we’ve seen as a result of our
targeted enforcement is a reducednumber of calls forservice,” she toldthe Times.
Burleigh said thenumber of busi-ness break-and-enters are downfive per cent andthe number of resi-dential break-and-enters are down 28per cent from the
previous year.She also pointed to two separate
drug dealing investigations in thedowntown core that are leading tocharges.
Burleigh said officers have alsobeen making progress in the inves-tigations into a spate of arsons. Shesaid the number of arsons is downby more than a third in 2013 fromthe previous year, when 86 deliber-ately set fires were reported. Noneof those cases had been cleared bypolice as of July’s statistics released,but Burleigh said the force is cur-rently “actively investigating mul-tiple suspects in the arson world.”
Burleigh has now been on thejob four months since taking overas head of the Upper Fraser ValleyRegional Detachment from the retir-ing Keith Robinson.
She said the transition has gonesmoothly, with few surprises.
“I’ve enjoyed it; it’s a nice commu-nity,” she said. “The city council andthe city staff have been excellent.”
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Supt. Deanne Burleigh says her transition to the local detachment has gone smoothly.
Top cop targets hot spotsSupt. Deanne Burleigh hopes to improve uponRCMP detachment’s low crime clearance rate
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BY SHARRON HOChilliwack Times
The Greater Vancouver Zoo released325 critically endangered frogs backinto the Agassiz wilderness earlier this
month to help boost the species’ decliningnumbers.
The Oregon spotted frog, named for itsdistribution of black blotches with light cen-tres on its head and back, is the most endan-gered amphibian in Canada.
This is the third year the Oregon SpottedRecovery team, a group of biologists andresearchers, has released a batch of frogsraised in captivity to the Chaplin site inAgassiz.
“Our hopes with releasing such large num-bers several years in a row to the same sitewould be to see our first egg masses returnnext year in this area,” states a zoo pressrelease.
The zoo facilitates a “head-start” program,which involves removing eggs masses fromthe wild and then raising the frogs in a cap-tive environment until they are ready to bereleased. The amphibians usually remain inzoo care for six months.
Embryos and tadpoles in the “head-start”program have proven to have a much higher
survival rate than those born in the wild.“We know from mark recapture that our
release individuals are turning up in sig-nificant numbers in comparison to wildanimals, so we know that our frogs aresurviving to breeding age,” said Jody Hen-derson, Greater Vancouver Zoo generalmanager, via email. “I believe we have seenindividuals more than eight years old fromthe captive head-starting program.”
The Oregon spotted frog population hasseen massive declines due to an introduc-tion of bullfrogs, green frogs and predatoryfish to the area, resulting in increased com-petition for food and habitat.
Residing mainly in calm, shallow waterslike flood plains and wetlands, the frog hasalso experienced a loss of breeding habi-tat due to activities like dam construction,excessive livestock grazing and agriculturaluse of water.
The Oregon Spotted Recovery team hasbeen working to save the species since1999, when the frog was first designatedas endangered by Endangered Wildlife inCanada.
“We are extremely pleased to be involvedwith a great conservation program for afrog that is critically endangered and needsso much help,” Henderson said.
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Chilliwack RCMP officers were on thelookout for a South Asian male in his40s after an incident on the Rotary
Trail along the Vedder River by Peach Roadlast Wednesday.
At approximately 4 p.m. that day, police
were dispatched to search for a small, silvervehicle after a report that a woman had sup-posedly been thrown into the river.
A police spokesperson was unavailable to
Was she thrown in the river?
See CRIME, Page 6
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The public is being invit-ed to provide input onthe Cultus Lake Official
Community Plan at an openhouse on Oct. 19.
The plan, which is a collab-oration between the FraserValley Regional District andCultus Lake Park Board, willguide the park’s developmentand land use over the next 20years and more.
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During the trial, a neighbour testi-fied that she saw Frederickson draggingwhat looked to be a body wrapped upout to the deceased man’s car. Freder-ickson did not deny doing this but heargued Planje’s death resulted during afight with a stick after a dispute over aneviction notice.
He said he cut his finger and he pan-icked and decided to dump Planje’s body.
Grist recounted the scene police foundinside the mobile home that had blood
stains and splatter marks in various plac-es. The judge found Frederickson’s claimthat he had no contact with Planje otherthan some back-and-forth slapping,unbelievable.
“I cannot accept this in light of the stateof the inside of the house,” Grist said.
Even a severe beating, however, thatleft Planje with numerous defensivewounds and three serious head injuriesthat led to his death did not necessarilymean there was murderous intent, Gristruled.
If Frederickson had known or thought
Planje was still alive when he dumpedhim and took his clothes in December,that could have constituted a murderousintent.
But the judge ruled that because Fred-erickson said he thought Planje wasalready dead, that left reasonable doubtto whether the act was second-degreemurder.
Frederickson has not been sentencedand a court date was set for Oct. 15 to fixa date for the dangerous or long-termoffender hearing.
- with files from Tyler Olsen
Frederickson dumped body near HopePLANJE, from page 1
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CRIME, from page 5 Witnessesconfirm on Friday what alleg-edly happened at the river, buton Thursday a press releasewas issued into an “incident”involving a 26-year-old, slimSouth Asian woman wearingmaroon-coloured, traditionalclothing.
The male sought wasdescribed as over 40, mediumbuild, darker skinned withshort black hair wearing allblack clothing. Mountiesreport the silver vehicle wasseen driving west on the actu-al walking/cycling trail, where
vehicles are not permitted.“As the area was quite busy
at the time with fishermanat the river, police are seek-ing any witnesses who mayhave seen these individuals orvehicle associated to the inci-dent or anyone who has infor-mation,” RCMP spokespersonConst. Cynthia Kershaw said.◗ Anyone one with informa-tion can contact ChilliwackRCMP at 604-792-4611, orCrime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).
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BY CASSIDY OLIVIERThe Province
Jonna Booth’s story changed soon afterRick Hilzendager, a special agent with U.S.Homeland Security Investigations, entered
the interview room late last Monday eveningand began laying out the evidence borderagents had gathered in the six hours of herdetention.
In another room sat Robert Booth, her hus-band, who had just exercised his right to a law-yer.
This was after Hilzendager had advised the54-year-old that he knew where the $73,000 incash agents had found stashed in the couple’s1999 Coach Camper came from.
Like her husband, Jonna Booth, 48, had ini-tially told investigators that the money, foundhidden behind a wood panel in a cabinet inthe camper’s washroom, had been won gam-bling at a casino.
It was money the Agassiz couple had failedto claim upon their attempted entry at theNorthgate, N.D. border crossing at about 4:30p.m. that Monday. When initially asked, theysaid they were not carrying currency in excessof $10,000. According to U.S. court documents,Hilzendager told Booth that based upon theinvestigation, information gathered from herown journal and information gathered fromher husband, that the money came from thesale of marijuana.
Her story quickly changed.Last Wednesday, the Booths made their sec-
ond appearance in U.S. District Court in NorthDakota on charges related to the bulk smug-gling of cash into the U.S., a crime that carriesa maximum penalty of five years in prison anda fine of up to $250.
However, it is the tale that Jonna Booth sud-denly decided to tell border agents that makestheir arrest and detention—they both remainin custody—all the more intriguing and lendsit the air of a TV drama.
According to the court documents, JonnaBooth told investigators that, due to “financialproblems,” she and her husband began trans-porting B.C. bud toWinnipeg early this year.
“Jonna Booth stated that they have madeapproximately one trip a month since approx-imately January of 2013,” the document reads.“Jonna Booth stated that the trips to transportthe marijuana were primarily Robert Booth’sdeal. Robert Booth purposely tried to mini-mize Jonna Booth’s involvement by providingher with few details.” During the latest run,the pot was kept in two hockey bags stashedunder the seats in the motor home, accordingto the documents. Jonna Booth told investiga-tors that the bags had been dropped off in aditch in Winnipeg where it was supposed to bepicked up.
But when Robert was unable to get in touchwith the person who was supposed to pickup the bags, they went back, got the bags anddelivered them to an undisclosed house, thedocuments read.
Due to a poor weather forecast, they decid-ed to drive through the U.S. instead of goingthrough the Rockies.
During their first hearing last Tuesday, JonnaBooth told the presiding judge she did not fullyunderstand the charge she was facing. RobertBooth said there had been no plans to sneakthe money into the U.S. “We were just goinghome to British Columbia,” he told the court.
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Agassiz couple arrestedCharged withsmuggling cashinto the U.S.
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For years, it seemed like Quebechad a lock on being the coolestprovince.You could buy beer andwine in the corner stores! Every-body spoke French and the citieshad great architecture! Best of all,they were constantly sticking it toOttawa.
Then, they started takingthemselves a little too seriously.Threatening to take your ball andgo home maybe works once, butif you do it half a dozen times over30-odd years, people just start roll-ing their eyes.
Worst of all has been the weirdhabit of constantly claiming to be avictimized minority, while increas-ingly trying to stomp on non-fran-cophone minorities.
Earlier this year, we saw the Que-bec Soccer Federation ban playersfrom wearing turbans or other reli-gious head coverings on the pitch.
Now the Parti Quebecois is pro-posing a ban on any religious headcoverings or sizeable religious sym-bols for all public employees.
It’s like PQ leader Pauline Maroiswas stung by one wasp, thendecided to wear an entire hive asa hat while jumping up and downvigorously.
Obviously, this new proposed
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Why is this law being proposedin the first place? Marois hasdefended the so-called Charterof QuebecValues as part of theunique Quebecois culture of secu-larism.
Well, I’m so full of secularism it’scoming out of my ears, and that’s aload of steaming horse manure.
The freedom of people in Quebecto practice their religion or cultureshould only end when it causesdemonstrable harm to others.
Let’s say that I firmly believe thatI must, at all times, wear a bedaz-zled purple pirate hat. Is this beliefbacked up by centuries of religiousphilosophy and tradition? Nope.Is it a statement about a proudcultural heritage? Nope. Shouldthe government be allowed to saythat I can’t wear my spangly purplehat? Absolutely not. The point offreedom of religion means evenfreedom for dummies like me tobelieve whatever we want.
This law is not about bringingQuebecers together and unitingpeople in la belle province, asMarois and her supporters haveclaimed. It’s about staking out atribal enclave and making it clearto those who aren’t white, purelaine Francophones that they aren’twelcome.
Quebec has turned from coolyoung rebel of the 1960s, with itsQuiet Revolution and radical poli-tics, into a stodgy, aging, xenopho-bic old twit, shaking his cane at thekids and telling them to get off hislawn. So basically, it’s doing whatall the other old hippies have beendoing since the 1980s.
Thankfully, not everyone fromQuebec is this stupid and intol-erant. Justin Trudeau, actuallyimpressing me for once, has spo-ken out against it.
Trudeau pointed to the idea thatpeople this law sees as outsidersare contributing to an evolvingQuebec culture. That’s how I seeit too—a culture, Canadian orQuebecois, is a growing, changingthing. Quebec was very, very dif-ferent as a society 60 years ago. Itchanged, in many ways for the bet-ter. Now it has a chance to changeagain.
If it doesn’t change, it will sufferthe fate of every other old, cranky,annoying and essentially powerlessbigot. It’ll wither and die.
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Corporate executives hold their jobsat the behest of those shareholders whobother to vote, just as a democracy is sup-posedly controlled by its putative share-holders: the country’s citizens . . . thosewho bother to vote, that is.
Of course, in an ideal democracy, every-one, rich or poor, is an equal partner at theballot box, while in the corporate struc-ture, those who have more money—orcontrol more shares—have a greater saywhen a vote is taken.
More importantly—and this is wherethe line between business and the busi-ness of government tends to get cloudy—a country’s prime assets are its people,and their well-being is the reason for thegovernment’s existence. In a corporation,people are just assets—and money is theultimate goal.
That distinction appears to have beenlost almost entirely in Canada’s gover-nance of late. Only science that bearsfinancial fruit is allowed relevance.Human rights are those that do not standin the way of monetary gain.
And now, as apparently clarified bygoings-on in Brazil, even our spies haveidentified the national interest of Canadato be congruent with the financial inter-ests of our corporations. When it’s onlymoney that does the talking, it’s strictlybusiness.
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Editor:Before I begin, I want you
to know I’m not a teacher,just a mom.
I have three teenage sonswho love to read and whowere all reading well beforeschool age.
The school system did notteach my children to read,I did. As a mother, I knewthat I had five years to pourinto my boys before theyever saw a classroom andthat I had a responsibility tothem to open up the worldin a way that only readingcan do.
We had no cable vision,we had books. I spent hoursscouring library sales andsecondhand stores to builda library in our own home.We amassed almost 2,000children’s books in our col-lection, many for less than25 cents each.
I read to my boys, andread and read and read. Iwas not taught to read atschool. My grandmotherand my mother read andread to me. I bought flashcards at the MCC and myoldest son knew 500 wordson sight by his third birth-day. Instead of televisionand video games, we read orlearned numbers. I boughtan inexpensive phonicsprogram and we spent time
working through it.We read the classics, we
read picture books, we readpoetry. When we were inthe car we would listen toaudio books, free to borrowat the library. We loved ourlibrary and got to know thelibrarian, often her sugges-tions became some of ourfavourites.
I can’t even imagine nothaving taught my boys toread, it was one of the mostamazing experiences of mylife. I watched the wholeworld open up before them.I considered it my job and itwas an honour.
Literacy begins at home.Turn off the TV. For the costof one year of HDTV youcould buy your kids a life-time worth of books. I guess
it just depends what’s reallyimportant to you. That’ssmart spending.
Rachelle LoeppkyChilliwack
Fundraisingwith humourEditor:
Re: “Raising funds through‘twerking’ is wrong,” Chilli-wack Times, Oct. 10.
Here at Chilliwack seniorsecondary we believe ingood fun and good humour.Luckily for our students, ourteachers tend to have thissame view.
To answer your ques-tion as to why a teacher is“twerking to raise funds,”you need only to look into
your own inquiry. Thisteacher was indeed twerkingto raise funds. It’s as simpleas that.
Chilliwack secondary hasdone something remarkableby working together to raisesuch an incredible amountof money for the Terry FoxFoundation. Unfortunately,instead of the congratula-tions we rightfully deserve,you have drawn the onlypossible negative conclu-sion from our vigorousfundraising efforts.
The teacher in question isin fact an “influential leaderwith great moral principles”despite your doubtfulwords. It is these very quali-ties that drove him to standup in front of our cheeringstudent body and TWERKFOR CANCER.
Not only was this hilarious,but it was also gutsy. Thisteacher was not endorsingtwerking, but poking fun at itfor a worthy cause.
As a leadership studentat CSS, I am proud of ourschool, our teachers, andwhat we have all accom-plished together. In fact, wehad a blast raising all thatmoney, thanks to fun harm-less dares like twerking!
Theresa-AnneClarke Harter
Chilliwack
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Karen Engelbrecht pullsinto her Sardis drivewaywith Old Dutch potatochips and a four-litre con-
tainer of chocolate milk bulging ina grocery bag.
This will clearly not be consumedby the diminutive woman. No,the salt, sugar and calories are forthe 215-pound, six-foot-two-inchChilliwack Chief defenceman whois playing ping-pong with his bud-dies in her basement.
“They are still kids and youalways have to remember that,”
Engelbrecht says of her hockey“son” T.J. Roche.
Engelbrecht has been billetingChilliwack Chief and Bruin hockeyplayers for close to a decade.
The only year she and her hus-band Ron missed was 2008/2009when they were living in SantaMonica, Calif., for treatment ofRon’s cancer.
It was his love of hockey thatinitiated the billeting of players intheir home.
“He did 25 years in the penaltybox in the old barn,” Karen saysof Ron’s stint volunteering for theteam.
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tinued on billeting players becauseof her love of the kids and her roleas “mom” in the house.
“There was that and I just learnedto love hockey,” she says.
Her “real” son played hockey too,but now that he and her daugh-ter are grown up and moved out,continuing to take in the boys andyoung men who play for the Chiefsjust made sense.
And she clearly loves it.On a Thursday as the Times visits
her house, it’s less than an hourbefore team practice and Roche, anAmerican from Northport, N.Y., is
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Karen Engelbrecht watches as her current Chief billet (facing on the right) T.J. Roche plays ping-pong with (facing, left) Austin Plevy, Mathieu Tibbet (left) and Blake Gober.
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Yvonne Comfort is the new director of theChilliwack FamilyYMCA.
Comfort has been with the YMCA since1996 and has held a variety of managementpositions within the organization. Her mostrecent position involved driving member-ship growth strategies on behalf of the fourmembership centres within the Greater Van-couver area.
Prior to working at the Y, Comfort wasa senior municipal leader at the CanadaGames Centre in the City of Whitehorse. Herdiverse range of experience will serve herwell in her new role as she works to nurtureand grow membership, and build upon theY’s strong partnership with the City of Chilli-wack.
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Chilliwack Family YMCA’s former generalmanager, Sheri Josephson, has also taken ona new position within the organization. Sheis now the manager of annual giving and willwork to raise funds on behalf of the StrongKids Campaign which provides more than $1.4million of direct financial assistance to 10,000people who need it most. With almost 25 yearsof experience within theY, she will be an excel-lent addition to the fund development team.
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Men’s rugbyThe Chilliwack Crusaders
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Chiefs v LangleyThe Chilliwack Chiefs
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Figure skatingTen figure skaters from
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Minor hockeyThe Chilliwack Minor
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BY SHARRON HOChilliwack Times
The Chilliwack Curling Club ismaking strides to keep up withthe times with new services and
changes—one of which may entail anew building in the future.
The Parks, Recreation and CultureDepartment’s strategic master plan,which is currently in the public inputphase and awaiting approval fromcouncil, recommends that the club’scurrent location be replaced with a newfacility in the next 10 years.
Although details on the proposedbuilding are scarce to non-existent,Chilliwack Curling Club manager BruceRenwick said there is onething on the wish list sofar—more curling sheets.
“We would like to seeeight sheets,” Renwicksaid, adding the currentbuilding houses only six.
The aging building is also becom-ing less economical to operate dueto factors like heating, electricity andtechnology. For example, the currentbuilding has an uninsulated concretewall that runs alongside the curling
rink.“Just the change in technology over
the years, it’s become harder to run ata profit, and we could use abigger building,” Renwicksaid.
With 650 active membersmaking over 1,200 visits aweek Monday through Fri-
day, the Chilliwack Curling Club oper-ates one of the most utilized buildingsin the city. In between league hoursand ice maintenance, the building runsfrom 6 a.m. to 1 a.m. almost every dayof the week.
The building was constructed in 1952
on municipal land, and was given tothe city immediately afterwards.
“We’re kind of unique. We built thisbuilding, we gave it to the city, they payus a dollar a year to run it,” Renwicksaid. “We provide a recreational servicefor 650 taxpayers in Chilliwack, for nocost to the city.”
Over the last 60 years, the club hascontinually renewed five-year leaseswith the city.
If the strategic plan is adopted, Ren-wick said it would be a bittersweetmove.
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Rink seeks more sheetsWith talk of anew building inthe future, moreice tops wish list
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Although yet to be approved, a new curling rink has been identified as a 10-year proj-ect in the Parks, Recreation and Culture Department’s strategic master plan.
See CURLING, Page 13
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“We just hope that we can—and I’msure the city will allow us—to continueto run the new facility [the way] it hasbeen,” Renwick said. “It’ll still be hometo all the curlers.”
And with members stretching backto the club’s inception and kitchen andbar run by volunteers, Renwick said
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Despite the misconception that curl-ing is “an old person’s game,” Renwick
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look on TV,” he said. “It’s like a chessgame on ice at a higher level.”◗ To join the Chilliwack Curling Clubcontact Renwick at 604-792-1572 [email protected].
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hanging out with team captain andLangley native Austin Plevy. The twoare teammates in an intense game ofping-pong against Texan Blake Groberand Mathieu Tibbet who hails fromDelaware.
The basement, with its 50-inch TV,couches, video games and ping-pongtable, is “their turf,” according toEngelbrecht.
The three are over often as Groberand Plevy live with a family just aroundthe corner.
Tibbet lives just three doors downwith Michelle Dennill and her fam-ily. This is the fourth year Dennill hasbilleted hockey players. She said theyfirst signed up because they no longerhad a basement suite renter and theythought it would be fun to share theirhome.
“It has been really great for our kidsto have a personal connection withsomeone on the ice during Chiefsgames,” she said. “Both my boys playhockey and delight in going to thegames and seeing their ‘big brother’play. Our hockey billets really dobecome part of the family.”
The Dennills have also billeted MattHutchinson in 2011/2012 and Bruin
Mike Forsyth in the 2010/2011 season.The Engelbrechts have had many
boys in their home, as many as threeat a time some seasons. The basement“man cave” as Roche refers to it, isfull of signed hockey sticks and auto-graphed photos of former Chiefs andBruins.
There is Josh Lunden who is current-ly playing for the Winnipeg Jets farmteam. A photo of former Chief SpencerGraboski, now at SacredHeart University, hangson the wall, signedwith the note: “Karen.Thank you so much forall you’ve done for me.These two years havebeen awesome.”
There was Tyler Stahl who was draft-ed by the Carolina Hurricanes and isstill in their system.
“One of [Tyler’s] first phone calls thisyear when he got engaged was to me,”Engelbrecht said. “He told his parentsand then me.”
There was Dillon Johnstone, ChrisEppich, Garret Forster, Cody Hobbsand more.
There are always ups and downs
when you forge connections with theseyoung men. Mostly they are ups asplayers move on to university teams orhigher levels, but the most heartbreak-ing in the “down” category came thissummer when Engelbrecht learnedthat one of her former Bruin billets, 25-year-old Kevin Boutilier had drownedin Shuswap Lake.
“That was devastating,” she said.Families who billet the boys and
young men who playhockey in the BCHLand WHL know thatthey are a surrogatefamily for players farfrom home. Sometimesrelationships are forgedwith players’ parents
who come to visit. And sometimesbillets like Engelbrecht and Dennillcan lend an ear, provide a comfortingmeal and be like a mom to young guyswho might be a little homesick.
“It is great to be able to providea place where he can relax andunwind,” Dennill says. “A hockey play-ers schedule is quite demanding somaking a home away from home surehelps.”
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BY SHARRON HOChilliwack Times
Canada’s Food Guideserves as the point ofnutritional reference
for three retirement homesin Chilliwack.
All three of the Chartwellfacilities, Birchwood Retire-ment Suites, HamptonHouse Retire-ment Com-munity andLynnwoodRetirementResidence,preparemeals inaccordanceto the foodguide, whichmakes rec-ommenda-tions onfood choices,servings anddaily vitamin and mineralintake.
Lynnwood, an indepen-dent living residence, offersresidents a morning coffee,similar to a continentalbreakfast, afternoon cof-fee and full-course dinnerseven days a week.
All seniors are given adinner menu card to orderfrom the evening beforewith options that cater totheir medical and personalneeds.
All meals and recipes aredietician approved.
“They’re specialized
menus, so it has exactlywhat they’re requirementsare,”said Marie Lashley, ofLynnwood.“For instance,if we had a resident whowas diabetic, that would belisted on their specializedmenu.”
According to Lashley,seniors are responsible forpreparing their own lunch,but do have the option ofpurchasing a soup or sand-wich from the residence atextra cost.
For dinner, a majority ofseniors eat together in thedining hall.
“They’re always encour-aged to come down,”shesaid.“Because it not onlyprovides them with a nutri-tious meal, but also a greatopportunity for socializingwith the other residents.”
Dinner starts off witha soup orsalad andconsists of aprotein, twovegetablesand a starch.All dessertsare diabetic-friendly.
Lashleysaid pre-pared mealsare one ofthe benefitsof living inretirement
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to the point where theyactually stop cooking forthemselves and they stopmaking nutritious mealsfor themselves,”she said.“Some of them will evenforget to eat.This way, everynight, there’s a . . . dinnermeal available to them.”
The food guide recom-mends that men and wom-en over 50, consume sevenservings of fruits and veg-etables and three servingsof milk and alternatives.Men are advised to eat six
servings of grains and twoservings meat and alterna-tives, while women areencouraged to eat sevenand three, respectively.
The guide also stressesthe importance of vitamin
D supplements for seniors,in addition to the recom-mended daily intake.
“Men and women overthe age of 50, have areduced capacity to pro-duce vitamin D through sun
skin exposure,”states theguide.
Vitamin D and calciumare important for bonestrength, and reducing therisk of osteoporosis—aprogressive disease charac-
terized by a deterioration ofbone mass—and fracturesin seniors.
◗ The food guide is availableon Health Canada’s websiteat bit.ly/9WDRjo.
Meeting the requirements for healthy eatingSeniors livingin retirementhomes don’thave to worryabout theirnutritionalneeds
“A lot of [seniors]get to the pointwhere they actual-ly stop cooking forthemselves andthey stop makingnutritious mealsfor themselves.”
Marie Lashley
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Fitness programs helpimprove the mental andphysical well-being of
seniors through social inter-action and exercise.
“It stimulates them and itgives them drive and theyget excited because .. . it’sturned into a social thing,which is why most peoplelive here,”said Tracey McDon-ald,Hampton House Retire-ment Community lifestyleprogram manager.
“Most people live herebecause they don’t want tobe alone.”
The Hampton House,anindependent living seniorshome in Chilliwack,offersfitness classes seven daysa week—one of which is
taught by a former hockeyplayer and resident in his 80s.
Sit and Be Fit is a seatedexercise program that takesplace a majority of the week.The 45-minute routineincludes hand and balanceexercises,stretching,on thespot cardio and the use ofweights and elastic bands.Alldone while singing old timetunes.
“They’re in a sitting posi-tion for the most part,but wedo challenge them,”McDon-ald said.“If they can’t jog onthe spot or walk on the spot,they can wiggle on the spot.As long as they’re moving[and] they get their heart rateup.”
All exercises are seniorfriendly and participants areencouraged to follow at theirown pace.Water breaks are
scheduled for every workout,and provide seniors with anopportunity socialize.
“It’s turned into a socialthing.They end up havinga sing-a-long and I toast toeverybody individually,toeveryone’s good health,”McDonald said.
Over the years,McDonaldsaid attendance has grownfrom three to four seniors to
now 20 to 24 per class.“We’re packed in there,”
she said.“I don’t want to sep-arate them because they’rehaving a good time.”
The higher turnout hasalso brought along increasedparticipation in men.
“It’s serious enough withthe weights and elasticbands to make it not a chickthing,but at the same time,
it’s fun and if we’re all doingit,we can be silly together,”she said.
In November,whenwinter comes full force,the halls come alive withnoise as seniors move theirregular walks from outsideto indoors. According toMcDonald,seniors walkthroughout the floors of thefacility—with the help of an
elevator—and play instru-ments along the way.
“If it’s not fun,they won’tcome,”McDonald said.“I’malmost fooling them into it.”
When asked how impor-tant fitness is to senior health,McDonald stated it is para-mount.
“Besides community andbeing stimulated,it’s every-thing.”
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Rushing Rivers 4-Hclub is at the end of itsthird year. We ended
the year with 16 members.Our club has dog, photog-
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The clover bud project isa program for children fromsix to eight years old.
We started the year withspeeches where four of ourmembers went on to com-pete at district level.
Then we moved on todemos with three of ourteams moving on to district.Then we went to the Chilli-wack Fair where nine of ourmembers came.
All of our members werevery successful with theirprojects.
Then we went to the Agas-siz Fall Fair where 12 of ourmembers attended.
As clover buds, Marcus,Erika, Emilie, Ava, Grace andAsiah all attended.
M o r g a n s h o w e d h i sgardening project. Mar-cus, Jacinta, Av, and Graceshowed their rabbits. Bai-ley, Stefanie, and Matthewshowed their dog projects.Matthew, Kayla and Jessicashowed their photographyprojects.
Our club had lots of fun atthe fairs. Our club is makingcards to sell at the Chilliwackand Agassiz fairs for nextyear. So if you see our booth,please stop by and have alook at the cards.
Our club has just heldelections. This is the 2014executive: President - Mor-gan Meir; Treasurer - Jes-sica Meir; Vice -President- Josh Oostenbrink; Reporter- Jacinta Meir; Secretary-Kayla Stanway; Safety officer- Matthew Meir
These positions are all veryimportant positions. Themembers that fill these posi-tions are all responsible anddedicated 4-H members.
Our club not only has a lotof fun at the fairs, we havelots of fun in 4-H all together.There are numerous events,programs and projects foreveryone.
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Uke clubUkulele clubmeets the firstand thirdWednesday of eachmonth (Oct.16) from7 to 9p.m. at Decades. All levels wel-come for an enjoyable eve-
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eReader workshopDid you know that FVRLoffers a great selection of freeeBooks that can be down-
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Weavers Guild meetsThe Chilliwack Spinners and
Weavers Guild meets on thefirst Thursday of every monthat 1:30 p.m. for a daymeetingand the third Thursday (Oct.17) at 6:30 p.m. for its generalmeeting. The guild also hostsinformal drop-in every Thurs-day between 10 a.m. andnoon. Visitors are welcome.Call Betty Sheppard at 604-794-7805.
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Kidney Foundation meetingThe Kidney Foundation holdsameeting on Oct. 17 at 7p.m.for all transplant recipients,donors, patients, familymem-bers andanyone interested involunteering to createmoreawareness of this diseaseinChilliwack.Themeetingwill takeplace atTheVedderLegionBranch280, at 5661Vedder Rd. Contact SharonBainbridge at 604-824-0541.
Sign, Say and Play SessionsDid you complete the Oct.10 Sign, Say and Play: Par-ent Orientation workshop?Put what you learned thereinto action. Bring your childto these three Sign, Say andPlay session on Oct. 19 from10:30 to 11:15 a.m. at SardisLibrary to practise the tech-niques. Registration required.
Ghost Towns of BC: SandonThe Chilliwack Library is host-
ing Ghost Towns of BC: San-don on Oct. 19 from 2-4 p.m.Travel back in time with well-know historian JohnMitchell(bcghosttowns.com) as heshares the story of Sandon,the“Monte Carlo of B.C.,”Sandon burst to life duringthe silver boom of themid1890s and was the first city inthe province to be fully elec-trified. The townwas wideopen andwild 24/7 with tinhorn gamblers, bordellos,newspaper men and tworailways—all tucked tightlybetween toweringmoun-tains. This program is gener-ously funded by the Friendsof the Chilliwack Library.
Fall MarketA fall market will be held atChrist Lutheran church onOct. 19 from 10 a.m. to 2p.m. Come and enjoy a saleof home baking, hand crafts,Christmas items, a tea room,BBQ hot dogs as well as“gen-tly used” items. Vendors fromthe community are welcome.For table rental call 604-858-4814.
PEO giant rummage saleThe Chilliwack PEO ChapterR holds its semi-annual PEOgiant rummage sale Oct.19 at Cooke’s PresbyterianChurch Hall, 45825Wel-lington Ave., from 11 a.m. to1:30 p.m. There will be toys,
books, jewelry, linens, house-wares, clothing/accessoriesand small appliances for sale.
BabytimeMake language fun. Startearly with Babytime. Helpyour baby develop speechand language skills—enjoybouncing, singing and rhym-ing with stories. Thursdays atthe Chilliwack Library from10:30 to 11 a.m.
Senior cribThe Senior Resources SocietySociety hosts a social cribday Thursdays from 1 to 3p.m. at the Evergreen Hall inOctober. For more info, callthe Senior Resource Office at604-793-9979.
Pagans meetThe Fraser Valley/ChilliwackPagan and Spiritual PathsGroupmeets every Thursdayat 7 pm. The groupwelcomesall pagan, wiccan, FirstNations and other spiritualpaths, including those ofmainstream faiths. For infocall 604-793-6708.
TV bingoChilliwack Monarch Lionsare selling cards for a bingogame to be run on ShawTVand online at www.chilli-wacklions.ca every Thursdayat 6 p.m. For more info, call604-793-4675.
Singers neededThe Chilliwack SymphonyOrchestra Chorus has somevacant positions and invitesinterested singers to jointhem in preparation for their
upcoming season. The cho-rus meets Thursdays at 7 p.m.at Sardis senior secondaryschool. The planned focusof our fall rehearsals will beon selections fromHandel’sMessiah andmusic of theChristmas season. For moreinformation on repertoire,concert dates and all otherinquiries, call 604-795-0521.
Mental health groupThe Living Healthy Group(Chilliwack Association), anon-profit group of self-advocates, welcomes newmembers withmental healthissues who are looking fora safe place to share theirconcerns. The groupmeetsWednesdays in the ProsperaCentre parking lot at 1 p.m.for a groupwalk followedby a discussion and sharingtime. For more informationplease call Barb at 604-792-1059.
Dust off your instrumentThe Chilliwack CommunityBand is looking for morebandmusicians to augmentits membership. For moreinformation contact TimWright at 604-795-7371 orDaleWarr at 604-858-3376.
English practiceA free English practice groupfor immigrants meets Tues-days at the Cheam LeisureCentre. Register at the Chilli-wack Library informationdesk, email [email protected], or callMarci at 604-792-0025 ext.2434 option 1.◗ Compiled by staff
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