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A blanket of fog covers the Fraser River at the Agassiz-Rosedale bridge. JESSICA PETERS/ PROGRESS
Waste plant triggers talk of aboriginal rights, titleJennifer FeinbergThe Progress
Sto:lo leaders are now looking to the province to stop a proposed haz-ardous waste recycling plant from being built in Chilliwack without their consent.
B.C. Environment Ministry offi-cials told The Progress last week the riverside waste facility will not be built — unless it’s deemed “safe.”
Sto:lo Tribal Council Grand Chiefs Doug Kelly and Clarence Pennier wrote Environment Minister Mary Polak to say they weren’t consulted during the rezoning of the site for the recycling plant on Cannor Road in Chilliwack, less than 200 metres from the river.
“Despite the obvious hazards associated with handling toxic waste near the Fraser River, and within our Traditional Territory, the City did not consult with the Sto:lo before approving the rezoning for the Waste Project,” they wrote in the letter to the minister.
The chiefs did acknowledge the city’s relationship and duties to the Sto:lo are different than those of the province.
Citing the Tsilhqot’in decision from the Supreme Court of Canada, their position is that the Aevitas waste project infringes on their aboriginal rights and title, and demanded an immediate meeting with the minister last month.
They stated they could not envi-sion any waste plant proposal that would be “acceptable,” on the flood plain of the Fraser River.
“It is our view that, in the face of our very good claim for title, the Province should seek our consent before approving the Waste Project.”
The Ontario-based proponent, Aevitas Inc., plans to recycle metal, glass and mercury from light bulbs and remove the PCBs from low-level PCB laden transformer oil for re-use.
Jennifer FeinbergThe Progress
The farmer from Local Harvest Market wanted to talk about the importance eating local food with greater consciousness at city hall.
Chilliwack council was support-ive last Tuesday night, but also emphasized the urgent need to bring the business into compliance with bylaws, and code regulations.
Local Harvest Market owner Dan Oostenbrink was given just under three months to work with city staff on outstanding issues around the retail aspects of the farm operation.
A public hearing Tuesday was held to rezone a portion of the land on Lickman Road from an
AL (Agriculture Lowland) Zone to an AC (Agriculture Commercial) Zone, in order to allow the contin-ued operation of the two-year-old business inside the main building on Lickman Road.
The rezoning was later approved in principle, but held at third read-ing.
Mayor Sharon Gaetz called Oostenbrink “a pioneer” and said she appreciated he was bringing attention to the growing local food movement.
“But I am not happy with some of how this is being done,” she said.
The revamped barn structure used to house some of the retail isn’t up to code, or considered suit-able for high occupancy use.
Oostenbrink admitted to council after being pressed on the issue, that he was aware he’d been operat-ing without certain permits in viola-tion of bylaws. He noted he’s been made to feel what they were doing was “illegal” at the site, having start-ed as a roadside veggie operation.
Changes at Local Harvest in the past three years ranged from green-house construction, to herb and vegetable production in the fields, as well as the addition of a café with hot food, and a farm market inside a renovated barn structure, with added partners.
Renovations were made to the main building “without benefit of approval and issuance of appropri-ate (city) Building Permits and for-
malization of the Agricultural Land Commission’s approval through zoning,” according to the staff report in the Jan. 21 council agenda.
Regarding when the applicant said about feeling what they were doing “was illegal,” the mayor said: “And it simply is.
“That’s why I would like to encourage you to work with staff on this. The rest of the community is watching.”
Oostenbrink was the only pre-senter at the public hearing.
He explained the goal of Local Harvest was to “reconnect people with farm grown food” through the experience of eating what they have grown right there on-site.
Local Harvest rezoning held at third reading
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The end of an era has arrived at the corner of Yale Road and Ontario Avenue, with one of Chilliwack’s oldest family-owned businesses moving away to make way for a new development.
Since the 1920s the Edwards family has occupied the piece of Chilliwack land that sits next to Southgate Shopping Centre, across the street from the Friendly Banners Restaurant.
Leo Edwards and his wife, Clarinda, started with a house and a small lot, purchased for $500. That’s where they raised six chil-dren. In order, there were big brothers Phil, Wilf and Jim. He was followed by younger sisters Caril and Anna and the baby of the family, little brother Tracy.
Over the years the Edwards clan purchased adjacent land and got into business for themselves, starting in 1931 with a five-bay service station, then a Mazda deal-ership and then a marine deal-ership, thriving in the heyday of Chilliwack’s downtown area. Other businesses came and went while the Edwards family remained.
“This is the 85th year,” Jim said recently. “At one time we had somewhere around 12 or 15 Edwardses employed. My broth-ers were all mechanics. We had grandsons and granddaughters. Husbands and wives.”
Jim is 80 years old. From then to now he has been the anchor, and the Edwards clan have served as constants in a sea of change.
But all things come to an end, and two years ago, in the midst
of financial strife brought on by the economic slowdown, Jim qui-etly sold the property to Lakeshore Ventures Ltd.
“We were selling over 100 Campion boats, and a few alumi-num boats a year, and at one point we were the biggest Legend Boats dealer in Canada,” Jim said proud-ly. “But when the recession hit, the fibre-glass boat market fell off the map. And it’s only now, in the last year or so, that it’s starting to come back.”
And now it’s time to leave. Jim spent all of January packing
up decades of paperwork, getting ready for a move to a new home, next to Rona on Yale Road in the spot formerly inhabited by GWG Rentals.
Jim’s new building makes sense for a lot of reasons.
It’s more visible, with the abil-ity to leave boats outside (rather than taking them out in the morn-ing and in at night). The property tax bill is significantly less than what he’s been paying, cut from $325,000 to $150,000.
Though he’s melancholy about leaving, Jim’s also excited and looking forward to the challenge of new surroundings.
“We’ve had lots of people com-ing through the door lately saying, ‘What’s going on? Where am I going to get my boat serviced?’” Jim said. “And I’ve been telling them, ‘We’re not quitting. We’re just moving.”
The old building, where he spent thousands of hours, will qui-etly be knocked down, probably within the next week. It will soon be replaced by Edwards Crossing, a seven-unit commercial devel-
opment that will feature a drive-through coffee shop.
The name of the development is a nod to the history of the corner and the family that made it home. Once completed, old pictures will be displayed on the walls of at least one of the businesses at Edwards Crossing, integrating the past with the present.
“It’s maybe kind of a strange thing, but I come from a family business as well and it just seemed right to honour Jim and his family for what they’ve meant to the com-munity,” said Hiebert, who has come to consider Jim a friend and not just a business contact. “My dad started Cooperators Insurance in Abbotsford around 45 years ago. My brother came in 38 years ago and I came in 28 years ago. So we get the whole family business thing.”
In a neat twist, Hiebert, a Yarrow native who runs Lakeshore Ventures Ltd. along with his broth-er, Gerald, plans to keep massive pillars of old-growth wood that sup-port the roof of the current build-ing, somehow working them into the new buildings.
The rest of the development will be all-new and eye-catching, with four access points to facilitate flow.
“When you do something of this calibre, you want to do this right,” Hiebert said. “We’re spending a little extra on some of the finishing touches, just to give it more of a presence. To be able to change a whole city block, that’s big for us. It’s a lot of fun and one of my joys is having someone drive by and say, ‘Wow! Did you see what they did on that corner?’”
Jim had a folder of pictures on his desk two weeks ago. They
are the pictures that will be blown up and displayed at Edwards Crossing.
He thumbed through them, each bringing back a different memory.
“Six days a week I worked here and it (the view) has changed sig-nificantly,” Jim said, gazing out his office window at the traffic on Yale Road. “I remember my dad saying once that in 1931, a car would go by every two weeks or so. Now there’s upwards of 20,000 a day.”
Hiebert has offered to have Jim take the first shot when demolition day comes.
“They want me to get on the forklift or whatever it is and take a chunk out of the building, and I guess I can probably do that,” Jim said, before closing his folder of pictures.
Jim Edwards (right) and his family has owned the property at the corner of Yale Road and Ontario Avenue since 1931. The property was recently bought by Todd Hiebert (left) who will be demolishing the building and starting construction on the new Edwards Crossing shopping complex. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS
New chapter after 85 years
District to analyze French immersion departuresJessica PetersThe Progress
Why are they leaving? That’s the question school dis-
trict staff will try to answer in an attempt to better understand French immersion needs in Chilliwack. While the new early French immersion programs num-bers are strong, a large number of senior secondary students who entered in Grade 6 aren’t staying in immersion through to graduation.
Assistant superintendent Rohan Arul-pragasam presented a report to the board earlier this year that outlines the dramatic drop in num-bers from Grade 6 entry into the immersion program, through to
graduation. He was requesting direction in following through on a more in-depth study. It isn’t hard to see the trend as they leave, but Arul-pragasam is more interested in finding out why they’re leaving.
Tracing this year’s graduating class back to Grade 6 enrollment in 2008, there were 88 students. Today, there are 58 students left in that same class. Some of the reasoning may be in location of the programs, Arul-pragasam said.
Forty kids in the 2015 grad class attended Grade 6 classes on the north side (at Little Mountain and Strathcona), and 44 attended Sardis elementary.
The following year, the 88 stu-dents dropped by three and Little
Mountain lost its LFI class. All the LFI kids moved onto middle school, with a choice between Chilliwack middle on the north side, and Vedder middle on the south side. The majority (51 of the 85) chose Vedder, and the number of LFI students on the north side dropped to 34. As they moved to Grade 8, another five students left the program, two from CMS and three from Vedder. That number stayed steady through Grade 9, when the students on the north side had a very big choice to make.
With no French program at Chilliwack secondary, do they bus to Sardis secondary every day for the next three years, or quit French immersion?
The answer is somewhat in the numbers. In Grade 10, only 66 of that original 2008 class was still enrolling in French immersion.
In Grade 11, that number dropped again, to 61. This year, there are 58 students left, making up two classes in Sardis secondary.
The pattern seems to show that with immersion courses in Chilliwack, it’s all about location.
But Arul-pragasam point that without tracking each student’s path, it’s dangerous to jump to conclusions. There are many other factors at play, some of the trustees noted.
Students may want to stay with their peer groups, or just lose interest in the studies. There are
those who moved away, students who struggle with the workload, or entering a trades program, or wanting to try the many elective programs at Chilliwack secondary, trustees suggested.
Still, Arul-pragasam wants to study the trend in-depth, for a few reasons. Years ago, French immer-sion was offered on the north side. Now that the district offers Early French Immersion, they are pro-jecting the need to grow over the next ten years as those EFI stu-dents grow up.
The board agreed the issue needs more in-depth analysis, and are hoping to see another report from staff by this September.
“We expect your office to take every step necessary to ensure the Waste Project poses no threat to our community,” wrote the grand chiefs.
Ministry of Environment offi-cials responded this week to ques-tions around potential threats to safety, but did not address the specific issues in the letter raised around aboriginal rights and title.
“The project will not proceed unless the ministry deems it safe – simply put, if it’s not safe it will not happen,” according to MOE officials in an written statement.
If approved the plant would have to be registered under the statu-tory rules and could be subject to
other provincial legislation, and the paperwork to obtain provincial approval from MOE was submit-ted last November.
“The application will undergo the necessary reviews and assess-ments by ministry staff before a final decision is made,” said the statement, emailed to The Progress. “Some larger waste management and handling facilities are also sub-ject to an environmental assess-ment if they meet criteria under the EA Act’s Reviewable Projects Regulation.
Ministry staff will be working with the proponent to determine if an environmental assessment is required.
Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, president of the Union of British
Columbia Indian Chiefs, put out a press statement Friday to say that “each First Nation enjoys the inherent and inalienable title” to their territories.
“There are very grave concerns about the proposed location for Aevitas’ hazardous waste site facil-ity on the banks of the Fraser River, home to the vast majority of wild salmon runs in B.C.
“As indigenous peoples, we will not stand idly by as business inter-ests are readily recognized as our indigenous title, rights and treaty rights are minimized, completely disregarded or totally violated.”
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It’s about sustainabil-ity, too. Oostenbrink said the costs of bringing everything up to code would be very cost pro-hibitive for the nascent venture.
“We have discovered that our off-season cash flow depends heavily on offering our custom-ers value-added food. Without a bistro and other value-added prod-ucts, we’d be forced to lay off most of our staff through the winter and close our doors.”
The problem is the rules restrict the retail space to just a 100 square metre area.
“That’s basically 10 by 10,” said Oostenbrink, adding that small space, where 50 per cent must come from their farm, “can in no way represent” what they produce on the 30 acres, and sell from their farm and other local farms.
He called the situa-tion and its restrictions “ludicrous” and asked for those in power to offer support and flexibility as he attempts to move from a temporary struc-ture into a more perma-nent one.
“I believe we should be eating with a greater consciousness of where our food comes from,” he said. “We should be ask-ing, how did this food get to my plate? Who picked
it?”He later asked if it
were possible to sell out of a greenhouse, looking for creative ways around the conundrum, and said he would do his “utmost” to fix the problem with the inadequate building.
“I hope we can move forward in a way that pro-motes local food.”
Oostenbrink wrote about the issue on his Facebook page, and read out sections of it at the meeting:
“The second reason we’ve been forced to rezone is because it is illegal to sell hot or cold food items for consump-tion on agriculture land. Yes, you may process food on farm land. You’re allowed to can, ferment, smoke or dry farm grown food and you’re allowed to sell it for off-site consumption.
“But the instant some-body on our property bites into an omelet that’s made using eggs from our pasture run chick-ens, homegrown toma-toes, peppers, onions with cheese from our neighbours farm we’re committing an offence.
“Selling food for on-site consumption is con-sidered a ‘non-farm’ activ-ity and forces us to apply for rezoning. Non-farm use, folks? What’s so non-farmish about eating food on the farm where it was grown or raised?”
After the hearing
Coun. Jason Lum said he saw “tremendous” value in the efforts by Local Harvest and the chal-lenges they faced.
Coun. Sue Attrill said she didn’t oppose the rezoning but took issue on the business operat-ing with the necessary
permits.Coun. Ken Popove
asked why they didn’t go through the proper per-mit process before open-ing, the reply was that they were told it would take $250,000 to bring it up to code.
Coun. Chris Kloot said
council wished them the best but wanted to make sure they were not “set-ting precedent.”
There’s very little leeway provided in BC Building code, said staff, for the flexibility the applicant was asking for.
Coun. Sam
Waddington said he wished them well, but would feel more comfort-able in his support if they were brought into com-pliance.
The rezoning was given three readings by council and it will be held there, pending efforts by staff and the applicant to work together to resolve the outstanding issues.
Only after the rezon-ing gets final approval will a building permit be issued.
“I will do my utmost
to make this work in the best interests of Chilliwack and our-selves,” concluded Oostenbrink.
Staff said they would work with the applicant until the building was in compliance, but suggest-ed there could be liability issues if the city failed to enforce the codes, and if the building fell down, they’d have a problem.
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Elain Evans, CFRE, is the Executive Director at Collingwood School and is previously one of the top fundraisers for UBC’s Annual Fund and Canuck Place.
are invited to a…Fundraising Lunch-and-Learn
with Elain Evans, CFRE
Friday, February 20Hampton Inn by Hilton Chilliwack
Registration at 11:45am
RSVP’s required via email [email protected] by Monday, February 16.
Congratulations to the winners of the Chilliwack Chamber of Commerce Business Excellence Awards.
Baker NewbyCHAMBER AWARD
Presented by 89.5 The Drive
Hofstede’s Country BarnRETAIL EXCELLENCE AWARDPresented by Canada Lands
Amy Watson,Tourism Chilliwack
EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR AWARDPresented by The Chilliwack Times
John JansenTHE STAN ROGERS LEGACY AWARDPresented by MNP and Anita Rogers
Henderson’s Funeral Homes & Crematorium
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AWARDPresented by Scotiabank
Ascend Fitness CoachingBUSINESS OF THE YEAR
Presented by Baker Newby
Ann DavisTransition Society
NOT FOR PROFIT/SERVICE AWARDPresented by Chances Chilliwack
Unika Lifestyle CompanySUSTAINABILITY AWARD
Presented by City of Chilliwack
Dawson FriesenYOUNG ENTREPRENEUR AWARD
Presented by Murray Chilliwack
Earls RestaurantDINING EXCELLENCE AWARD
Presented by Star 98.3
Gore Brothers HomesDEVELOPMENT EXCELLENCE AWARDPresented by Chilliwack and District
Real Estate Board
Kevin GemmellDIRECTORS AWARD
Presented by The Chilliwack Progress
Hampton InnNEW BUSINESS OF THE YEAR AWARD
Presented by KPMG
Honeyview FarmAGRICULTURAL EXCELLENCE AWARDPresented by Omega Engineering
TycropMANUFACTURING AWARD
Presented by TD Bank
Jennifer FeinbergThe Progress
Chilliwack council voted to upgrade the Young Road dike even though it will mean steeper grades on some driveways.
The vote last Tuesday was 4 to 2 by council to go ahead with the plan to elevate the dike by one metre.
The total cost will be $2.1 million, with pro-vincial and federal coun-terparts sharing it three ways with the city’s share at about $700,000.
Councillors Ken Popove and Chris Kloot voted against.
The alternative for council was cancel-ling the project, which would have meant for-feiting Emergency Management BC fund-ing, and the $150,000 for emergency upgrad-ing materials, said Tara Friesen, manager of envi-
ronmental services for City of Chilliwack in her report to council.
Some of the issues that emerged included driveways. About 14 of
the 32 Young Road prop-erty owners impacted by the project have “chal-lenging” driveways.
The one-kilometre section runs north from
Hope River to Cartmell Road, and the upgrade is intended to protect parts of Fairfield Island, some agricultural land and more.
Council also accepted proposal for the design and construction of the East Dyke Young Road Upgrades from Martens Asphalt, in the amount of
$1.5 million.They resolved to
work with Martens reps to continue discussions with affected prop-erty owners to mitigate
impacts, and continue discussions with Skwah and Shxwha:y Village for longer-term strategies.
[email protected]/chwkjourno
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Relief coming for rich, poor in B.C. budgetTom FletcherBlack Press
B.C. will likely be the only province in Canada to report a balanced bud-get for the current year and project surpluses for the next three years, Finance Minister Mike de Jong says.
In a briefing for reporters on what to expect when the annual budget is presented Feb. 17, de Jong said the sur-plus for the current year will be larger than the $444 million forecast in November. Corporate and personal income tax has been stronger than expected, but there is no certainty that will con-tinue into the new fiscal year that begins April 1.
The second straight surplus after billions in deficits the previous four years will be used to pay down debt, but there is some room for helping poorer people, de Jong said. He hinted that this may include a change to the long-standing prac-tice of deducting spousal child support payments from social assistance and disability payments to single parents.
“There are some areas where we believe there
Continued: BUDGET/ p12
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High price of cheap oilAs the price of gas hovers around $1.05 a litre, the prognostications
of $2 gas seem like a distant nightmare.It’s certainly a lot less than the $1.40 a litre we were paying at the
pump last summer.The savings amount to about $30 per month per car, depending on
the size of the vehicle. If gas prices stay low, we’ll likely also see sav-ings in other consumer goods as transportation costs ease.
That extra money could find its way into other segments of the economy. Or into bolstering savings accounts and retirement funds battered in recent years by uncertainty and just the high cost of daily living.
But—and there’s always a but —there’s a downside.Canada is an oil-producing country, and the boon of cheaper oil
comes with a price.Last week, the Bank of Canada cut its key interest rate to .75
per cent from 1 per cent, the first time its changed that rate since September, 2010. Nobody expected it.
Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz said the move was insur-ance against the potentially destructive effects of cheap oil.
Poloz didn’t mince words; he said the drop in the price of oil is “unambiguously bad” for Canada’s economy.
Already that’s playing out, as thousands of workers are laid off from the oil fields of Alberta. Those job losses have hit that province’s real estate and retail sectors, downturns that could quickly spread to neighbouring provinces and beyond.
The drop in oil prices has been matched by the devaluation of the Canadian dollar, which is now at its lowest point compared to the American dollar in five years.
So while pulling up to the gas pump may now put a smile on your face, pay heed to that growing pit in your stomach.
It just goes to prove the old adage; we have to be careful what we wish for.
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VICTORIA – Premier Christy Clark’s push to “re-engineer” the B.C. education system is moving ahead aggressively in B.C.’s 25 post-secondary institutions.
One of the first tasks for Andrew Wilkinson in his new role as advanced education min-ister was to outline the shift in operating grants for colleges and universities to in-demand occupa-tions. By 2017, a quarter of the money for post-secondary insti-tutions will be directed to areas where labour force surveys fore-cast a need.
This was greeted with some alarm when it was announced last year. Simon Fraser University president Andrew Petter at first downplayed the coming skills shortage as “relatively small” and warned against pushing post-sec-ondary institutions into a “zero sum battle for dollars.”
Petter has since come on board, as his approving comments were
featured in the ministry’s Jan. 26 news release detailing the shift. He and others have been assured that in spite of Clark’s rhetoric,
suggesting trades training is in and university is out, the news for SFU and other univer-sities isn’t all that bleak.
Wilkinson is completing a p r o v i n c e - w i d e tour of all post-secondary institu-tions this week,
and I reached him at his visit to Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops.
“The response to this has generally been pretty good, because the students are put-ting this pressure on institutions themselves,” he said. “Some of the institutions are … shrink-ing things like teacher education
and putting more effort into the science-based, quantitative fields that are often related to these in-demand occupations.”
The surplus of teacher gradu-ates has been noticeable for some time, but that’s largely a function of oversupply, much of it in urban areas. In the Cariboo, for example, teaching jobs are projected to have the highest number of openings by 2022, fol-lowed by nursing and retail and wholesale trade managers. Then come heavy duty mechanics and electricians, but also paraprofes-sional jobs in legal, social, com-munity and educational services.
Province-wide, it’s part of a broader demographic shift to fewer children and more retirees. In fact the government started this targeted funding a decade ago with health care, forcing uni-versities to produce more doc-tors, nurses, lab techs and so forth.
The retiring baby boom is expected to account for more than half of the openings in the next decade, which will expand the skills demand across most fields, beyond the trades training for the anticipated liquefied natu-ral gas industry and other high-demand industrial areas such as truck driving.
Wilkinson notes that of the ministry’s $1.9 billion budget, about 60 per cent goes into gen-eral post-secondary education, for introductory courses that stu-dents take when they are seeking a career path, through under-graduate studies to professions.
“So I think the idea that we’re going to somehow minimize or diminish funding in that general education, arts and science cat-egory is just not true,” he said.
Key to this shift is measur-ing the performance of courses offered at colleges, universities and technical schools. Each year,
the ministry surveys about 30,000 graduates to find out whether their studies helped them find a related job.
The results are available on a website that breaks them out by institution and general study area. To find it, do a web search for “BC student outcomes” and select the “executive dashboard” to check the results for courses and schools in your region.
The site provides charts show-ing the percentage of students who land relevant jobs. Not sur-prisingly, it tends to be higher for technical programs and lower for fine arts.
It also shows grads’ average wages, a sobering but useful bit of information for high school students and their parents.
Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @tom-fletcherbc Email: [email protected]
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January 21, article by Jennifer Feinberg on the application for gravel removal near Seabird Island for February/March 2015, the Fraser River Gravel Stewardship Committee (FRGSC) would like to make a few comments.
Firstly, we recognize that the issue of aggregate removal from the Fraser River, over the last 20 years, has been extremely con-tentious. Notwithstanding the dif-ferences that the various sides have, we hope that the ultimate decisions (to be made by the agencies) will be based on the best-available science and engi-neering.
Secondly, over the years the FRGSC has tried to educate the public in regard to the extra-ordi-nary fisheries, social, ecological and First Nations values of the Fraser River between Mission and Hope, the location of the pro-posed gravel removal. There are almost 30 species of fish that use this part of the river for spawning and/or rearing and/or migrating, etc., in addition to the myriad of non-fish species of plants, inver-tebrates, birds and land animals. Much of what makes this section of the Fraser so ecologically spe-cial and biologically productive is the presence of these large, old gravel bars; it is these very gravel bars that are being targeted for mining.
Thirdly, much of the conten-tion surrounding gravel removal, between Mission and Hope in the Fraser River, has been around the issue as to whether or not gravel removal can provide meaningful benefits for flood protection, and the FRGSC has repeatedly point-ed out that the relevant agencies have failed to show this to be true.
Thus, in the context of this new
application for gravel removal near Seabird Island for 2015, we state the following:
1. As we understand this pro-posal, both from direct communi-cation from Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the British Columbia Water Stewardship Division staff, and the actual-project pro-posal obtained through Access to Information and Privacy, the proposed gravel removal is sole-ly for the purpose of obtaining construction aggregate and there are no known or effective flood-protection benefits to be derived from this project;
2. While the proponent’s appli-cation report was replete with errors and omissions, it is clear that this mine will significantly alter and disrupt the stream habi-tats, change the local hydrology, affect sedimentology, etc., at this location, at least for fish and other species;
3. The proposed gravel is to be taken from an area and type of habitat that is known to be extremely good juvenile Chinook salmon habitat, and will disturb, alter and/or destroy this habitat without any meaningful mitiga-tion or compensation;
4. The location on and within which the proposed mine is situ-ated comprises one of two-known-remaining White Sturgeon spawning habitats in the lower Fraser River
(White Sturgeon are a feder-ally-listed species at risk.) The proposed mine-site at Seabird Island appears to be important spawning habitat for lower Fraser River White Sturgeon based on sonar inventory and assessment, and the observation of substantial numbers of mature adults located at this site during the 2013 and 2014 spawning seasons. White Sturgeon eggs/embryos and lar-vae have also been captured at
this site confirming that spawn-ing truly does take place at this location. Because of the intricate network of channels, and the extra-ordinary numbers of large, mature adult fish seen at this proposed-mining location during the spawning periods, it is prob-ably a particularly rich and critical spawning habitat for lower Fraser White Sturgeon.
In summary, the FRGSC is of the opinion that this proposed mine will not only destroy valu-able juvenile Chinook salmon rearing habitat, it also has the potential to profoundly impact the spawning and/or incuba-tion habitat of White Sturgeon and it’s embryos at this Seabird Island gravel-mine location. This of considerable concern given that there are, now, fewer-and-fewer young fish recruiting into the lower Fraser River White Sturgeon population over the last decade-and-a-half. That is, young sturgeon numbers, which are being born into the population of fish, are in a steep numerical decline; this may be due, in part, to the extensive gravel mining that has taken place in the lower Fraser River, between Mission and Hope, over the last 20 years.
To put this proposed project into context, we suggest that mining this location is the White Sturgeon equivalent of putting a gravel mine into the lower Adams River where the world-famous Fraser River sockeye run spawns. The fundamental question is: Why would you allow such a pre-cious piece of British Columbia to be destroyed?
We urge the authorizing agencies, Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the British Columbia Water Stewardship Division, to refuse this application.
Dr. Marvin L. Rosenau Fraser River Gravel Stewardship Committee
My wife and I would like to thank the Chilliwack Paramedics who, while driving by, woke us up at 3:00 am Tuesday, Feb 3/15 to alert us that our pickup truck was on fire in our driveway.
Also, thanks to the Fire Department for put-ting the fire out before it could spread to our house. Since this has happened, I have found out that the next night, another pickup was set on fire. There were two
other vehicles torched the week before as well. This rash of vehicle fires in the area is of great concern as, soon-er or later, someone will get seriously hurt or killed by the actions of some lunatic fire bug.
It is disheartening that none of these fires have been reported by either of the local newspa-pers, as the residents of Chilliwack deserve to know what is happen-ing in their community.
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The vision for the future of education in Chilliwack is beginning
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The school district received 657 responses to a survey it posted online
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But there’s more consulting coming up in March, with at least two more chances to get involved in the strate-gic plan. The public is
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March 19. Both forums run from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Novak hopes to have the final document ready by June 2015.
“Going into fall 2015, this board will have a new Strategic Plan,” she said.
The plan will provide a five-year framework for education in Chilliwack, taking the board to 2020.
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NDP house leader Mike Farnworth said he is hopeful the child sup-port clawback policy will be changed after more than a year of protest by the opposition. And he said the government isn’t telling the whole story about balancing the bud-get using “tax increases by another name.
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The next budget will also provide tax relief for the wealthiest B.C. residents, as a two-year increase on incomes more than $150,000 a year comes to an end. De Jong imposed the 2.1 per cent hike in his pre-elec-tion budget in 2013, after then-NDP leader Adrian Dix promised a similar move to help balance the books.
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It’s an opportunity to see oil and watercolour paint-ings by Chilliwack artist and entrepreneur Robert V. Harms.
There will be 75 original works on display, some for sale at the upcoming show.
The exhibit, Art in Harms’ Way, will be at the Chilliwack Gallery in the Chilliwack Cultural Centre from Feb. 19 to March 28. Harms will also be launching a book about his life and his paintings, Works of Consequence.
The artist was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan in 1940.
He moved to Chilliwack and attended Chilliwack sec-ondary, graduating 1958, 1959 and finally 1960, with a major in Art, before earn-ing a BA in English and
Psychology from UBC. He took some Pre-Architectural and Art Design courses and in 1969 he completed his Master’s Degree in School Administration, graduating at the top of his class.
“Not bad for a dyslexic who was considered to be retarded in the first grade,” he laughs.
With all that education he went back to his Alma Mater as a teacher at Chilliwack Senior High School. It was a hesitant start but after two years he was voted the most popular teacher.
His years as an art teacher were very productive. He ran his class like an open studio, frequently working alongside his students. There are many Chilliwack residents in their 30s and 40s who remem-
ber Mr. Harms as being a friendly, strict but fair teach-er and administrator. Many thank him for steering them towards a career in art and design.
The desire to be a true Renaissance man led him to get involved in professional wrestling. He was known in the ring as the ‘Magnificent Mennonite – Canada’s Handsomest Athlete’ and the tagline: ‘with a body that men feared and women desired.’ His parents always told him that Mennonites were paci-fists. True to his up bringing, he would “pass a fist” wher-ever it was needed to defeat his opponents.
In his 40th year he realized that he had three bad habits smoking cigars, drinking cof-fee and teaching school. He decided to give them all up to develop property. His first attempt was a motel idea in which every room would dis-play two original paintings.
The motel was never built but he did create some 60 watercolours, which were eventually displayed along with several mosaics and a thousand pound carving of a Unicorn, at a project that was completed, his nightclub “The Blue Unicorn”. The cabaret business allowed him to leave teaching, and even-tually also the cabaret busi-ness. His investments have allowed him to become the patron of his favorite painter of contemporary oils - him-self.
He and his wife live on a genteel estate on the Hope River. He built the house on riverfront acreage to show-case his artwork and sense of design.
It also contains an art gal-lery, which is home to the Harms’ permanent collec-tion. Harms quipped he likes to think of it as “The Harmitage.”
Artist reception for Art in Harms’ Way is set for Saturday, Feb. 21 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
The Art in Harms’ Way show opens on Feb. 19
The exhibit, Art in Harms’ Way, opens Feb. 19.
Jennifer Lim returns to Chilliwack Feb. 14.
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place, they must first experience consistent safety in their relation-ship with a caring, pre-dictable adult. Feeling safe is something that can only be defined by the child. You may know that your child is safe playing in the park with other fami-lies, but if your child does not feel safe then it won’t be a success-ful playdate, and they may be overwhelmed with a stress response.
How can you ensure that a child feels safe? First, make sure their physiological needs are taken care of. Oftentimes, kids from hard places need more help regulating their snack, fluid, and exer-cise needs, so ensur-ing there are regular intervals to gas up and expend some energy will help their systems maintain balance. Also, Drs. Purvis and Cross emphasize the need to build rela-tionship connections before trying to cor-rect behaviour.
Reflecting on the last time you felt overwhelmed, would you have responded better to a lecture or a genuine, “How are you doing? ” or “What can I do to help?” Also, the opportunity to make a choice can give a sensitive child a feel-ing of power and con-trol over their world. He or she may not be able to choose a bedtime, but they can choose what pyjamas to wear and which toy to snuggle. For more information, “The Connected Child” is available to order online or at your local bookstore.
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On the farm where Lillian Sjogren was raised, a creek that cut through the property offered one of her first important learning opportunities.
“Dad fenced the creek off into a dam,” she said, and that created a large basin where their cows could have a drink. It also happens to be where she learned how to swim, she remembers.
“I just paddled around and paddled around and one day I realized I was staying above water,” she said. “And I’ve been swim-ming ever since.”
Sjogren is now 90 years old, and still eager to learn new skills. There aren’t many down days for the Hampton House resident. A retired teacher, Sjogren has taken a stab at most of the arts. In her study, a crocheting project lays on the work table for when-ever she has a few min-utes. The walls are lined with her paintings, shelves
are stacked with beautiful hand-woven baskets, and drawers are filled with arts and crafts supplies.
“I didn’t even know I was artistic until the last few years,” she said, flip-ping through her current sketchbook from a draw-ing course at the Arts Centre. Her schedule is pretty busy, between time at the pool, in classes, volunteering around Hampton House, and visits with her family.
“You haven’t lived until you’ve met this little guy,” she said, looking at a photo of a grandchild. And while she cherishes her family, she also has learned in her life to take time for herself.
“After I got divorced I realized I had no person-ality, nothing,” she said. “I came home one day and I said to Anita (her daughter), ‘I’m going to get a new me. I’m going to Australia.’”
She had found a teach-ing exchange program, and dove into the adven-ture with wild abandon. While there, she met a
teacher 30 years her junior. At the time, Sjogren was 51 and it was 1978. Despite time and distance, the two women are best of friends to this day.
Making friends and staying active are two of the big factors in keeping healthy as time goes on, she said.
“Be yourself, be happy, move around and have friends,” she said. Sjogren has met plenty of new friends; as an ambassa-dor for new residents, she meets them all and visits with them for a few days as they get settled in. New residents also meet Tracey McDonald, the activities coordinator at Hampton.
“She comes in and intro-duces us, and from then on they’re your friends,” Sjogren said.
McDonald keeps every-one busy, she said, with activities that appeal to different types of people. Sjogren picks the ones she likes, and dives right in.
“As long as I keep doing what I like to, I’ll be all right,” she said.
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Lillian Sjogren, 90, recently started making necklaces out of yarn, which is just one of the many arts and crafts she does to stay active. She also swims laps and does aquafit at the Landing Leisure Centre to stay fit. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS
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There are times when Harvey Adrian and Martin Giesbrecht oversee a Sardis senior boys basketball practice and feel every one of their years.
Physically, Harvey just can’t keep up. With one knee replacement surgery com-plete and another required, the 70 year old is wise enough to know he can’t run the floor with the boys. Martin, 66, steps into the fray when required, and shows surprising game, stunning players with a well-timed steal or his patented Giesbrecht crossover dribble.
“Most of the time you can stand in
the way of a 16 year old and they just go around you,” he laughed. “But you at least try to make it difficult enough where they have to put some effort into it. Sometimes though, they think you’re slower than you are. You grab a rebound and they say, ‘Oh my! The coach grabbed a rebound!’ You go home hurting and feeling your age, but those moments make you feel good.”
“Mentally, it has to make you feel younger, and that’s what’s happened with both of us,” Harvey said. “We feel more energized because of this, and I think in my eight years of retirement, coaching this team is the best thing I’ve ever done.”
Martin Giesbrecht (left) and Harvey Adrian stepped up to coach the Sardis senior boys basketball team. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS
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When the Falcons were coach-less early in the school year, their fate hanging from the thinnest of threads, you’d have expected a young up-and-comer to come knocking. As the saga unfolded, would anyone have bet money on two retirees riding to the rescue?
Harvey wasn’t short on coach-ing experience, but his last full-time basketball gig was nearly three decades ago, when he ran a league for kids 15 and under in Sherwood Park, AB.
That was in 1987.Giesbrecht never coached at all
before stepping into the Sardis gymnasium in October, his basket-ball experience coming as a col-legiate/recreational player years and years ago. It was an interest-ing scene as Harvey and Martin addressed their team the first time, a starting step to bridge a genera-tional gap spanning nearly half a century.
Kind of a ‘show me’ moment, with the old fellas trying to estab-lish their credentials.
“We wanted to tell them why we felt we were qualified to coach them, and that if they were willing to accept us, we were willing to help,” said Martin, who worked for years in corrections and running a group home for troubled youths. “That was the first moment where we started to get to know them and
they started to get to know us.”“Being able to talk to them
wasn’t going to be a problem for either of us,” added Harvey, who spent 40 years and countless hours training young employees with McDonalds Restaurants. “The boys on this team went from prob-
ably not having a season to being able to play, and they were really committed to us right away. They were ready to help us as much as possible, and it’s been utmost respect from them. They call us coach and it’s been an amazing process.”
By their own admission, nei-ther man would conjure memo-ries of Boston Celtics legend Red Auerbach for their technical knowledge.
While Harvey and Martin bring their A game in positive reinforce-ment, mentoring and motivation,
Harvey has sought help from his two sons to navigate basketball’s X’s and O’s.
Rod is the head coach of the mens’ team at Briercrest College, a small but successful program in Caronport, SK., while Jeremy coaches at Vancouver’s Sir Charles Tupper secondary school.
“A lot of the drills and things we’ve put them through, I got from my sons, and that really helped establish that I know what I’m talk-ing about,” Harvey said.
He and Martin have also relied on the good will of their wives, understanding women willing to share their husbands’ golden years.
“The commitment was some-thing I thought about a lot before I put my name forward, because we’re here five days a week, plus weekend games if we’re playing in a tournament, but I just have this belief that there’s no time to retire,” Harvey said. “My wife and Martin’s wife, we’re lucky that they fully support what we’re doing. They’re at all of the games, cheer-ing for the coaches. They’ve helped make this a fun experience.”
“This is an opportunity that God put in front of me, and everything about it has been great,” Martin concluded. “I only had to think about two minutes before I said yes, and if they decide they want us back again next year, we’ll be available.”
Seniors step in to salvage Sardis basketball seasonSARDIS from page 18
Martin Giesbrecht (right) and Harvey Adrian stepped up to coach the Sardis senior boys basketball team.
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Moving into a seniors care facility is a big life decision, possibly one of the biggest.
And like all important decisions, it’s one that requires a lot of forethought and dis-cussion.
Margaret Kostrzewa, manager of Crystal Ridge Manor, said often the decision to move into care is made too late.
“People are waiting too long to go into facilities,” she said. “They have a fall or a scare and then think maybe it’s time to look at it.”
Instead, she encourages families to start talking about the possibility early on in life.
“Maybe call around and check out some of the facilities,” she suggested. “A lot of people don’t really know what we’re really about. When they think of care homes they think of being really elderly and it kind of scares them.”
Many seniors have lived in their homes for up to 40 years, or even longer, she noted. Moving from a longtime family home can be overwhelming, and this is where adult children can really step up and make the transition easier. Visiting care homes with-out your parents can help narrow down choices for them. Or, Kostrzewa said, pop-ping in casually to check out a care home can be a good option.
Many people are resistant to change, and
it’s important to find a place where mom and dad can feel at home, she added.
“We hear this all the time,” she said. “The family comes to us and says their parents don’t want to move. They’re at a time in their life when they need assistance, help with food, or companionship.
A good way to open the subject could be when everyone is out and about in the car for a drive.
“You can say ‘Let’s just stop in and check out the facilities, because one day you might need it,’” she said. But while it’s important to bring up the subject, it’s also important not to overwhelm them with choices.
The benefits to moving into assisted liv-ing, in all its various levels, are enormous.
Staying healthy is easier with home-made meal options, and calendars full of activities can keep loneliness at bay. One resident gained five pounds within the first month of moving into Crystal Ridge, a direct result of better nutrition.
“She looked remarkable,” she said. “Food is a big thing, if you don’t eat prop-erly it affects you day to day.”
Every home has different meal options, some with kitchens in the suites and others without.
Researching all of the options available should include connecting with Fraser Health, your family doctor, and senior liv-ing advisors in homes that offer the ser-vices needed. Fraser Health can help figure out which style of housing is affordable, and can provide an assessment for proper placement.
Most importantly, don’t put the research off until it’s too late. Wait lists for care homes are unpredictable, with rooms com-ing up unexpectedly. If moving involves the sale of a home, then getting on that list sooner than later is of utmost importance.
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Learn more at www.fraserhealth.ca/seniors.
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Yoga builds overall physical strength, as well as increasing balance and mobility.
So it’s ideal for everyone — especially seniors.
Dee Monroe is a local yoga instructor who teaches Chair Yoga and Gentle Yoga, at the Mt. Cheam Lions Hall for the Chilliwack & District Seniors’ Resources Society.
Monroe started learning the ancient practice of yoga when she was 50.
She’s an active grandmother who sees the wonderful effects it has on her students every day.
“People just feel better after doing yoga,” she says.
Monroe has been taking classes for a decade.
She got serious about it after losing her job suddenly a few years ago. She now finds herself busy teaching classes at various yoga studios in Chilliwack.
Monroe is very inclusive in her approach to designing a program around chair and gentle yoga for seniors.
“The main idea I had was to try to bring yoga to people, who for whatever reason thought yoga was not for them.
“Maybe they thought they were too fat, too old, too stiff or too immobile. I show them they can do it.”
They may not do the impressive headstands or handstands seen in yoga videos but they do move around. They increase core and leg strength. She teaches them whatever elements she thinks they can do.
“My mantra is if you have breath in your body, you can do yoga. Even if that’s all you do, there is always a way of bringing the mind-
fulness to the act of breathing.”In Chair Yoga, they sit in a circle,
eyes closed. The instructor leads the group through deep breathing exercises and centring, where the breath is visualized as it moves through the body. It’s a relaxing process.
They’ll do some standing poses. She’ll often do a reading at the end of each class.
The Gentle Yoga class is very different from Chair Yoga.
“With Gentle Yoga, they bring their own mats, and they need to be able to get up and down off the floor.”
Some folks come to both kinds of classes offered by the Seniors’ Resources Society. Some only one or the other.
The great feedback she gets
about a residual sense of wellbeing is a good indicator.
“One person told me, ‘it means I don’t want to kill anyone for a couple of days.’ That’s a good sign I guess.”
It also decreases the crippling feelings of isolation for some of her elder students, as they chat and get to know each other around the class time.
“People end up feeling stron-ger,” she said. “They gain flexibil-ity and improved balance. Often they feel calmer and less reactive. They gain acceptance, and feel they can go with the flow of life.”
It is so important as we age.Monroe thought about it care-
fully when she was designing the classes.
“We all have this notion that we’re going to lose our mobility as we age, as well as our minds, and our balance.
“But it doesn’t have to be like that,” she said.
“Yoga is good medicine.”There are yoga classes at vari-
ous Chilliwack locations, however the Chilliwack & District Seniors’ Resources Society offers Chair Yoga at Mt. Cheam Lions Hall on Mondays and Wednesday mornings starting at 10:30 for 45 minutes. Then Gentle Yoga is on Fridays at Mt. Cheam Lions Hall at 10 a.m.
Call the Seniors’ Resources Society office at 604-793-9979.
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Dee Monroe (foreground) leads a Chair Yoga class at the Mt. Cheam Lions Hall. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS
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They’re both organized, they both like lists, and they’re both Type A person-alities.
It’s a perfect fit.Carol Lees recently
stepped down from her role as ElderCollege coordina-tor, and as of Jan. 1, Sharon Blaker has taken her place.
“I’m very excited. Carol is incredibly organized and I think it’s going to be chal-
lenging, but she has made it so easy for me,” said Blaker in December.
Lees was the coordinator of the school for students over the age of 50 for three years.
“This has been an amaz-ing job,” said Lees. “It’s so interesting. There’s some-thing new every day.”
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Now it’s Blaker’s turn to find the future teachers of ElderCollege.
“I’m looking forward to sourcing out instructors,” said Blaker.
A former community justice forum trainer with the RCMP, Blaker retired in June 2012 only to return later that year and retire again in March 2013. Since then she’s been the vice president of the Rotary Club of Chilliwack (2013/2014) and is currently the presi-dent of the club.
“I have a friend who said I would not be out of retire-ment for two years, and she’s right,” said Blaker.
She took the position as the new coordinator of ElderCollege because it sounded like a lot of fun.
“I one hundred per cent believe in lifelong learning. We have to keep those brain cells alive and working,” she said. “I love working with the volunteers. I love the partnership with UFV, and I think the idea of being here on campus will keep me young.”
This isn’t the first time Blaker has been involved with ElderCollege. She has taught two classes in the past; one was the popular Travel With Me course, and another was a session on restorative justice.
Lees has also taught a Travel With Me course, and she’s also been an ElderCollege student.
Courses like Travel With Me and Tapestry for Thought are offered every semester, with different top-ics and different instructors each time. The majority of the other courses are brand new.
“We are both connected to the community,” said Blaker. “We have a lot of resources that we can go to and access.”
It takes months to orga-nize the next set of instruc-tors for the courses offered at ElderCollege.
“They don’t have to be teachers, they just have to be experts in their fields,” said Lees.
ElderCollege celebrated its 15th anniversary this past fall. They’ve had hun-dreds of teachers over the years with a wide variety of expertise ranging from the arts and travel, to health and genealogy, to history and languages, and more.
“We are rich in leadership in our community in terms of what people know,” said Lees.
She also welcomes people who may be inter-ested in teaching a course at ElderCollege to contact them. Instructors volunteer their time at the school, but they do get a stipend to help pay for gas money, and park-ing pass.
The bulk of the courses are held at UFV, but they are also partners with the
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Some people take courses because they live on their own and it connects them to people of their own age, said Lees.
There are 500 people reg-istered with ElderCollege. Registration fees are $12 per year.
In addition, there are doz-ens of volunteers. Some are regulars in the office, while others are on the program committee, and administra-tion committee, and council.
“I’m going to miss the people I this office. We have volunteers that work here every day. They become really close colleagues,” said Lees.
Their need for volunteers increase the most twice a year on registration day,
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Sharon Blaker (left) has taken over Carol Lees’ job as ElderCollege coordinator. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS
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Pat Bell was only 52 years old when a severe stroke struck him down, three-and-a-half years ago. His life completely changed. The Chilliwack resident went from being very active individual to facing the chal-lenge of not being able to talk and having to use a wheelchair to get around.
With the support of many people, Pat has worked hard to create a new rich, reward-ing life. He’s now ready to help other stroke survivors and has signed up to be a volun-teer facilitator for a new program from the Heart and Stroke Foundation.
Offered for the first time in the Chilliwack area, the Heart and Stroke Foundation’s Living with Stroke™ program is a new tool for help and hope. The program is designed to help stroke survivors and their families improve their quality of life, cope with chal-lenges and connect with others.
Lead by volunteer facilitators, such as Pat, and provided free in several B.C. com-munities, the program is comprised of eight weekly, two-hour sessions. Weekly topics include: impact of stroke, physical changes and keeping active; dealing with emotions and relationships; reducing future risk and nutrition.
All stroke survivors and their families are welcome to join. The next Living With Stroke program is:
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Are you interested in making a profound differ-ence in the lives of your friends and neighbours?
If so, volunteering with the Chilliwack branch of the non-profit Alzheimer Society of B.C. may be for you. The Society needs a facilitator for its local care-giver support group.
The volunteer position involves leading a monthly meeting, maintaining group attendance records and using Society materials to provide information to the group.
“It’s very rewarding work,” says Jude Weir, the Society’s Support & Education Coordinator for Chilliwack / Hope. “You’re
enriching the lives of oth-ers. You are playing an inte-gral role in helping those who are struggling to cope with Alzheimer’s disease or another dementia.
“The support groups operate on the philosophy that people with similar issues are in a unique posi-tion to offer support to oth-ers on the same journey,” says Weir.
A time commitment of three to six hours per month is required. Training is provided.
Qualified applicants will have excellent listening and interpersonal skills, a high comfort level in facilitating group discussion, a basic understanding of the issues
surrounding caring for a person with dementia, and good problem-solving skills.
For more information contact Jude Weir at 604-859-3889 or [email protected].
An estimated one in 11 B.C. residents over age 65 already live with Alzheimer’s disease or another dementia. That number is projected to dou-ble within a generation (25 years). The resulting need for assistance is soaring and volunteers help ensure that the demand is met.
Residents can get more information on Alzheimer’s disease and other demen-tias by visiting www.alzheimerbc.org.
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where they require at least 60 people to help out. Registration for ElderCollege’s spring 2015 semester has already passed, but sometimes there are still spots open in certain courses.
“We both appreciate the skills in this job and we both appreciate each other,” said Lees looking at Blaker. “I’m leaving my baby in good hands, and I believe that
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Jenny Olthoff holds three dark wooden bobbins in her left hand, each wrapped with yards of white thread. With her other hand, she weaves a fourth bobbin back and fourth through the three taut strands.
In about a minute, she’s woven a small leaf into the pattern she’s working on.
This is lace making.It’s the intricate art of taking fine threads
and twisting, weaving and crossing them over each other to create a variety of things.
“It’s a slow process but you end up with something very delicate. It’s an old art form and there’s a delicacy to it that I really enjoy,” says Olthoff, member of the Chilliwack Lace Club.
A lot of people think that lace is for the trim of a nightgown, or doilies, but that’s very outdated.
The club makes everything from book-marks to collars, bracelets to jewelry, sashes to clothing, tablecloths to handkerchiefs, and more.
“You can make very modern designs and frame them,” she says.
They typically work with special, very fine lace thread, and fine linen or cotton yard. Synthetic threads and yarns are not used as they would make the lace limp.
Some have even used wire to make pieces like lace jewelry and figurines that can stand on their own.
It takes a lot of patience to make lace. You can’t learn in just a few hours, it takes about 10 to 12 three-hour long lessons.
“It’s very good for working the brain,” says Kathy Thomas. “It’s translating the picture (you’re working with) to what you’re making.”
“You have to pay attention to what you’re doing,” she adds. “It’s like learning any-thing, it takes time and practice. Individually, the basic stitches are simple, but it’s combin-ing them that makes it intricate.”
Lace has been around for hundreds of years, but it is a fading form of art. There are about 30 guilds in all of Canada, and they are very lucky to have one in Chilliwack, says Olthoff.
“It’s a little bit like being a member of an underground organization,” she explains. “There are very few people who know about lace, and (when you have a question) you don’t know who to ask. Most problems are solved within the group.”
The Chilliwack Lace Club has been around since 1955. It only has six members, but they are a dedicated bunch that meets twice a month. Their oldest member is Hylda Law, 94, who’s also the most experi-enced.
The group has donated lace pieces to Heritage Village, Parkholm Lodge, and Chilliwack Hospice Society.
Anyone wanting to join, or try out lace making can visit the group during their
regular sessions. The Chilliwack Lace Club meets on the second and fourth Thursday of every month at Evergreen Hall in the Minto Room from 12 to 2:30 p.m. Equipment is also available to borrow for newcomers. Their next meetings are Feb. 12 and 26.
“It’s so nice that it’s still around,” says Olthoff. “We’d like to keep it going other-wise it dies out. If we don’t keep it going no one will know how to make lace anymore and that’s the end of lace making.”
For more information contact Jenny Olthoff at 604-823-4705 or [email protected], or Kathy Thomas at 604-392-6140 or [email protected].
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There are a range of good-natured dogs up for adoption in Chilliwack that could really use a little walk and some fresh air.
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S e c o n d a r y Characters presents A Musical Movies Film Festival Feb. 11 to March 4 at Cottonwood 4 Cinemas. The festi-val features one movie each Wednesday night at 7 p.m. Schedule: Grease on Feb. 11, West Side Story on Feb. 18, The Music Man on Feb. 25, and Mamma Mia on March 4. Tickets $10 each or $35 for festi-val pass. Tickets avail-able at the Centre Box Office, or by calling 604-391-SHOW(7469) or online at www.chilli-wackculturalcentre.ca. Tickets can also be pur-chased at Cottonwood 4 Cinemas on the day of the show.
The Chilliwack Senior Recreation Centre (9400 College St.) is having a Valentine potluck luncheon on Friday, Feb. 13 at 11:30 a.m. There will be a guest from Purple Shield to speak on topics pertain-
ing to seniors such as wills, investments and more. For more info call 604-705-3997.
The Cheesecake Burlesque Revue is at Cultural Centre on Feb. 13 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $32/adults, $29/seniors, and $27/stu-dents and available at the Centre Box Office, or by calling 604-391-SHOW(7469) or online at www.chilliwackcul-turalcentre.ca.
The Vedder Golden Branch 280 has live entertainment every Friday and Saturday nights. This week-end (Feb. 13/14) it’s Mitzfitz.
Suppor t the Chilliwack Animal Safe Haven by purchasing one of their ‘Cats in Hats and Bowties’ chocolate bars on Feb. 14 and March 21 at Chilliwack Mall from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Proceeds go to care for the cats at the Safe Haven.
The Chilliwack Youth Orchestra presents Valentine’s Concert featuring Jennifer Limon Feb. 14 at 7:30 p.m. at Cornerstone Christian Reformed Church (9800 McNaught Rd.). Tickets $15/adult, $10/student and senior, and available at Kings Music or at the door (cash only).
Spend Valentine’s Day with the Dal Richards Orchestra at the Chilliwack Cultural Centre on Feb. 14 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $40/adults, $37/seniors, $35/students, and avail-able at the Centre Box Office, or by calling 604-391-SHOW(7469) or online at www.chilli-wackculturalcentre.ca.
Tractorgrease pres-ents Yukon’s very own Diyet and her band at the Tractorgrease Cafe on Feb. 14 at 7 p.m. (48710 Chilliwack Lake Rd.). It will be an inti-mate concert on a hope-fully intimate night. A multi-course meal will
be served. Tickets $18 and available at the Tractorgrease Cafe or by phoning 604-858-3814. Doors at 6 p.m. www.diyetmusic.com
The Chilliwack German Canadian Club has its Valentine’s dance with music by The Silverstars on Feb. 14, at 8 p.m. (doors at 7 p.m.) at St. Thomas Hall (46048 Gore Ave.). Tickets $14 and avail-able at Vallee Sausage on Alexander Avenue and Multipack at 9382 Nowell St. Call Gerhard for table reservations at 604-858-3021. More info: Hans at 604-857-5000, or Uta at 604-798-7315.
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Certified Organic Associations of B.C. (COABC) is hosting their annual confer-ence, trade show, and Organic Feast from February 27 to March 1 at the Best Western Rainbow Country Inn. The COABC promotes organic agriculture and provides educa-tion on organic agricul-ture and organic foods. The theme this year is Livestock, with ses-sions related to feed, animal welfare in dairy production, pasture management, slaugh-ter processes and facil-ity challenges, as well as health benefits of organic beef.
There is a full slate of additional sessions related to connecting landowners with new farmers looking for land, attracting best-fit employees, scal-ing up permaculture principles to small to medium-sized farms, growing the farm com-munity, pest manage-ment (e.g., wireworm and pests particular to tree fruit and gar-lic), soil amendments, crowd funding, using a co-operative model to achieve business goals, tree fruit pro-duction, and weaving an indigenous narra-tive into a more sus-tainable land and food system.
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open to the public and the range of sessions will appeal to every-body with an interest in maintaining and preserving the local food system, including urban farmers and gar-deners, conventional growers and produc-ers, and permaculture or biodynamic farm-ers.
Saturday will host an all-day trade show with a mix of non-profit organizations and com-mercial booths shar-ing information about their programs and products. Stick around for a Young Agrarians Mini-Mixer and a Seed Exchange hosted by the brand new BC Eco
Seed Co-op. Saturday will be capped off with an elaborate Organic Feast, silent auction, and the high-energy music of Blackberry Wood. Their cabaret spin on dreamy old musical styles will get folks on the dance floor, organizers say.
Keynote Speaker, Sara Dent, is the B.C. coordinator and producer of Young Agrarians, a network and capacity building project for the next generation of small-scale, ecological farm-ers in B.C. Dent will speak about the work Young Agrarians has done since it started in January 2012 as
a partnership with FarmFolk CityFolk. The program has dou-bled in size and par-ticipation annually in response to a very real need for new farmers to network and build c o m m u n i t y - b a s e d “extension services.” Young Agrarians will inspire you to support the movement to grow new farmers in BC and beyond organizers say.
There are Saturday and Feast Only ticket options for folks who aren’t able to attend the full conference. For more information and to register, visit the COABC website: http://www.cer tified-organic.bc.ca/.
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Affordable real estate prices – interest rates at an all time low, now is a great time to buy
Are you waiting for ‘just the right time’ to get into the real estate market?
All the signs point to that time being now. Chilliwack just experienced its best January in 8 years for home sales. Interest rates are historically low and buyers are taking advantage and shopping for new homes and ‘second’ homes.
The average interest rate over the past 10 years was about 5.87 per cent and 10 years before that, interest rates were in the double digets. Current rates are less than 3 per cent, making affordability and qualification significantly easier compared to the historical average!
Don’t waste valuable time hoping that interest rates will go any lower or that home prices will drop - all you need is your REALTOR® to guide you.
First-time buyers should definitely take advantage as the monthly payments with today’s interest rates on your first home could be less than you would pay in rent. Your rent may rise periodically, but your mortgage payment will remain stable, depending on the term of mortgage you choose. Some lenders today can offer a 5 year fixed term for 2.89 per cent or less offering long term mortgage payment stability.
Some lenders today can also offer up to a 35 year amortization resulting in lower monthly payments and allowing purchasers to qualify for more buying power.
Buying a home represents a gain in equity for future. The homeowner will eventually pay off the mortgage and be living ‘rent-free’. And don’t forget the appreciation factor!
What about refinancing your current mortgage?With mortgage rates so low, homeowners everywhere
are locking into longer term mortgages to secure the current low rates. You also may wish to tap into some of the equity in your home to get ‘cash out’ to pay off credit card debt, or other new purchases.
Talk to your lender about your options, the costs to refinance, and how much money you can save over the life of your mortgage. If there are any refinancing fees, they may be a fraction of your overall savings in the long term. Refinancing your mortgage can also result in significantly lowering your monthly payments by consolidating debts.
#2306-8485 Young Rd.$174,900
Say goodbye to lonely! Come join the vibrant, friendly, supportive residents of Hazelwood Grove. This lovely, updated 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom condo is the perfect next step in your downsizing plan. Large updated kitchen with plenty of cabinet and counter space. Master suite is self-contained with a walk-in closet, bathroom featuring double shower and plenty of room for your bedroom furniture. An east facing private balcony and large living room windows provide a cool summer and beautiful views of Mt. Cheam. Modern gas fireplace will heat the entire unit but radiant heat from the floor will keep you cozy and both heat sources are included in the strata fee. This well run gated community will give you peace of mind as you walk around the block. The busy clubhouse is a gathering place for all kinds of social activities and offers a swimming pool, sauna, hot-tub as well as a full kitchen. Workshop, guest suite, social room, library and more! 55+ age restricted, one small pet, no rentals. You’ll love Hazelwood Grove!
I’ve been Selling Real Estate in Chilliwack and surrounding area for almost 26 years. It is a career I truly love and in that time I’ve really enjoyed working with all my clients from fi rst time buyers looking for their fi rst home, to seniors looking for their perfect retirement home.
Whether you are thinking of BUYING or SELLING, let me put my years of experience and knowledge, along with the excellent service I provide, to work for you!
Thank you to all my clients, friends and family for your continued business and trust in me over the years. All of you are very special to me.
The REALTOR® who always goes the extra mile!
meetloisknott
HomeLife Glenayre Realty Chilliwack Ltd.
604.795.2955H LOME IFEHomeLife Glenayre
Realty Chilliwack Ltd.8387 Young Rd.
Cell604-819-5899
More experience, better results superior service!
It’s more than my mission statement, it’s the foundation I have built my success on for over the last two decades. It’s about obtaining top dollar for client’s homes and doing more to make each transaction smooth and worry-free. That’s why I am continually raising the bar in service by adding new innovative sales tools and customer services like weekly color advertising, unlimited virtual tours and a complimentary moving van.
My commitment is to give you a competitive edge in our marketplace and the extra helping hand to make each move the easiest it can be. The market has changed, experience has never been more important than now. With over 1200 homes sold and counting, I know what it takes to buy or sell in this market. ...Call me fi rst!
RE/MAX Nyda Realty
604.858.7179www.robertlacerte.com
meetrob
lacerte
NYDA REALTY#1 - 7300 Vedder Rd.
Buy Smart. Sell Smart.
Finding the right agent to represent you is an important decision to make. My goal is to always exceed my client’s expectations by providing the expertise and personalized attention you deserve. I have a genuine passion for helping people and ensure a smooth real estate experience.
Put my hard work ethic and results driven attitude, full marketing program and boundless energy to work for you. I’d be happy to discuss promoting your home and help you explore your buying options.
President’s Club award winning agent 7 years in a row, licensed since 2005, serving the Chilliwack, Agassiz Harrison & Hope areas with a proven track record in Sales and Service.
Visit www.shannonbabcock.com to Read Client Testimonials and view virtual tours.
Royal LePage Wheeler Cheam Realty
604.795.1081www.shannonbabcock.com
meetshannon
babcock
Wheeler Cheam Realty
#8 - 8337 Young Rd.
Working in the fi nancial industry for 25 years has opened many doors for me as a REALTOR® with my past/present clients and friends.
As a resident and professional living in the Chilliwack area since 1987, I have always believed in going the extra mile for my customers. Both honest, ethical and hard working, you can count on me for none other than friendly and effi cient service.
For those who I am acquainted and those I have yet to be...allow my enthusiasm and zeal to work for you. With me “SERVICE IS KEY”. Whether considering your fi rst or last home, upsizing or downsizing lets make your dreams come true together.
Dependably Yours,
Laura
meetlauranisbet
HomeLife Glenayre Realty Chilliwack Ltd.
604.795.2955www.lauranisbet.com
H LOME IFEHomeLife Glenayre
Realty Chilliwack Ltd.8387 Young Rd.
BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS OF TRUST, LOYALTY & UNDERSTANDING
For more than 25 years my business philosophy has centered around building long term relationships with my clients. At the core of this relationship building is an unmatched level of service, accessibility and experience. This elevated level of service has moved clients to refer their friends & family many times over and I’d love the opportunity to show you what I can do.
I’ve lived in Chilliwack for many years and I’d love the opportunity to share my enthusiasm for the area with you.
meetlesleywhite
RE/MAX Nyda Realty
604.858.7179www.lesleywhite.ca NYDA REALTY
#1 - 7300 Vedder Rd.
I have lived in Chilliwack for over 45 years, raising a family and watching this city and surrounding areas grow and prosper.
I have a passion for real estate and gained knowledge by building, buying and selling my own homes in this area. I took this passion and knowledge a step further and became a REALTOR® in 2005.
As a REALTOR® I approach clients with an honest, down to earth, trustworthy attitude. This is a major reason why referrals from past clients are the majority of my business! I have also been a President’s Club Award recipient since 2009.
“Working for You . . . Beyond the Sale’’
meetbonnie
radke
HomeLife Glenayre Realty Chilliwack Ltd.
604.795.2955www.bonnieradke.com
H LOME IFEHomeLife Glenayre
Realty Chilliwack Ltd.8387 Young Rd.
Cell604.799.0475
The Matheson Team is comprised of 11 REALTORS®, a Property Manager, and one full time assistant.
Our focus when marketing your home is presentation, both online and in print. It is important to us that each and every listing is displayed as well as it possibly can. From professional photography to a comprehensive online marketing strategy, your listing will be well represented to all buyers, no matter how they look for it.
Having a team of 13 allows us to give you full service, seven day a week coverage, that an individual REALTOR® simply cannot provide.
Go to www.mathesonrealestate.ca to meet our team and get details on how we can help you buy or sell your next home. We look forward to working with you.
Cell604.791.3211
meetdan
matheson
Sutton Group -Showplace Realty 2014604.793.9900
www.mathesonrealestate.ca Sutton Group -Showplace Realty 2014
9240 Young Rd.
Cell604-819-1167
New Listing
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#2306-8485 Young Rd.#2306-8485 Young Rd.$174,900$174,900
Say goodbye to lonely! Come join the vibrant, Say goodbye to lonely! Come join the vibrant, friendly, supportive residents of Hazelwood friendly, supportive residents of Hazelwood Grove. This lovely, updated 2 bedroom, 2 Grove. This lovely, updated 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom condo is the perfect next step bathroom condo is the perfect next step in your downsizing plan. Large updated in your downsizing plan. Large updated kitchen with plenty of cabinet and counter kitchen with plenty of cabinet and counter space. Master suite is self-contained with a space. Master suite is self-contained with a walk-in closet, bathroom featuring double walk-in closet, bathroom featuring double shower and plenty of room for your bedroom shower and plenty of room for your bedroom furniture. An east facing private balcony and furniture. An east facing private balcony and large living room windows provide a cool large living room windows provide a cool summer and beautiful views of Mt. Cheam. summer and beautiful views of Mt. Cheam. Modern gas fireplace will heat the entire unit Modern gas fireplace will heat the entire unit but radiant heat from the floor will keep you but radiant heat from the floor will keep you cozy and both heat sources are included in cozy and both heat sources are included in the strata fee. This well run gated community the strata fee. This well run gated community will give you peace of mind as you walk will give you peace of mind as you walk around the block. The busy clubhouse is a around the block. The busy clubhouse is a gathering place for all kinds of social activities gathering place for all kinds of social activities and offers a swimming pool, sauna, hot-tub and offers a swimming pool, sauna, hot-tub as well as a full kitchen. Workshop, guest as well as a full kitchen. Workshop, guest suite, social room, library and more! 55+ age suite, social room, library and more! 55+ age restricted, one small pet, no rentals. You’ll love restricted, one small pet, no rentals. You’ll love Hazelwood Grove! Hazelwood Grove!
Call Tamra Fordof Royal LePage Wheeler Cheam Realty
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WOW! I CAN’T BELIEVE IT!! THIS IS GREAT!!! YIPPEE!!!
This is what people are saying who are listing their homes right now. Because a well priced home that presents nicely is selling!!! Yes indeed. The spring market has started early and there are BUYERS out there looking for the right home.
Give me a call if you’ve been thinking about listing your home. I have over 12 years experience in real estate and can help you get your home priced right, as well as give you expert guidance throughout the process of selling your property.
I AM Tamra Ford, the name you know, and the professional you can trust!
meettamra
ford
Royal LePage Wheeler Cheam Realty
604.792.0077www.tamraford.ca
Wheeler Cheam Realty
#8 - 8337 Young Rd.
With the technology changes we face every day, proper marketing of your home becomes even more important. Your goal is to get the best possible price for the sale of your home. My goal is to make that happen. The internet has become one of the most useful tools in marketing your home.
I have a new interactive website to further enhance the marketing of homes for sale. As a Seller, it’s important to make sure your home gets the proper marketing to get it SOLD. Marketing does make a difference. Call me today, and I will show you the unique ways I can get your home sold.
Royal LePage Wheeler Cheam Realty
604.792.0077www.IanMeissner.com
meetian
meissner
Wheeler Cheam Realty
#8 - 8337 Young Rd.
Cell604.819.3000
BIG on SERVICE,BIG on MARKETINGBIG on RESULTS! Let us help you. CALL US at 604-793-9900 **See our FULL PAGE ad in the PROGRESS Real Estate Review EVERY WEEK.Ask us about ALL the EXTRA things that we are doing to market our listings.***Iswirl Vendor***Open House BLITZ Campaign***Out of Area AdvertisingWe guarantee that you will be impressed!NOW IS THE TIME to BUY OR SELL…we would be more than happy to sit down and discuss your options. We believe in TEAMWORK and aNO PRESSURE approach to Real Estate!There has NEVER been BETTER INTEREST RATES…and that means…not only is it a great time to BUY, but to SELL as well.We have many, many HAPPY CLIENTS … give us a call and fi nd out why.You will be glad that you did.604-793-9900
Warm Regards,Crystal, Jen & Jim
Sutton Group -Showplace Realty 2014604.793.9900
www.CrystalDeJager.com
meetcrystalde jager
Sutton Group -Showplace Realty 2014
9240 Young Rd.
Being born and raised in Chilliwack, I have a distinct knowledge and understanding about our community and surrounding areas.With many years of experience in the Fraser Valley real estate market, I have developed a unique approach to help my clients achieve their buying and selling real estate goals. I really enjoy talking to my clients, getting to know them and truly understanding what they need to love where they live. My approach to real estate is all-encompassing, yet remarkably simple. I recognize that the common thread in each and every real estate transaction is a client with similar needs: exceptional customer service, transparency of information, neighborhood expertise and professional guidance through the entire process. I embrace these needs and work diligently to cater to you on every level of my business.Working with Cory, clients gain access to comprehensive and up to the minute knowledge of the local property market, allowing them to fully understand the options and opportunities that are currently offered.I look forward to hearing from you and helping you discover your dreams.Do it right! Just Call Cory!
Royal LePage Wheeler Cheam Realty
604.792.0077www.justcallcory.com
meetcory
silbernagel
Wheeler Cheam Realty
#8 - 8337 Young Rd.
Cell604.798.3993
DREAMING OF THAT PERFECT HOME?This is the best buyer’s market in years with the lowest interest rates and prices, as well as a great selection of homes to choose from. I always excel at doing the absolute best for my clients so know that my negotiating skills as well as knowledge of the market conditions will get you that dream home at the right price.
SELLING YOUR HOME?I will get you the best price, in the least amount of time and with minimal inconvenience. I will put my 22 years of real estate experience, coupled with state of the art technologies and custom designed marketing strategies to work to sell your home for top dollar. Call now for a free, market evaluation and let’s get “A MOVE AHEAD”.
Sutton Group -Showplace Realty 2014604.793.9900
www.chilliwackhomes.net
meetlynne
ferris
Sutton Group -Showplace Realty 2014
9240 Young Rd.
A Total
COMMITMENT
to Your Goals
Buying or selling a home is a monumental process that deserves a total commitment from your real estate professional. Ed Fitzgerald couldn’t agree more. That’s why Ed pours his heart into every transaction he conducts, he understands that your home is not only your most important investment, but also where you and your family create memories that will last a lifetime. Let Ed help make the most of your next move. Call him today to schedule a private consultation.
Royal LePage Wheeler Cheam Realty
604.792.0077www.EdFitzgerald.ca
meeted
fi tzgerald
Wheeler Cheam Realty
#8 - 8337 Young Rd.
Cell604.316.4337
The Russ Bailie Team & RE/MAX welcomes Wendy to Chilliwack’s top real estate professionals. With 5 successful years of Chilliwack realty experience, the strength of her business is built on a solid foundation of TRUST. Wendy can be counted on to work hard, provide current professional knowledge and to do the right things to make your real estate experience the best ever.
She is a member of the Chilliwack Soroptimist Club helping women and children in our community, volunteers for Ruth and Naomi’s, and donates a portion of each sale towards Children’s Hospital.
She is an excellent source of community knowledge for neighbourhoods, schools, and services and a trusted advisor for your real estate needs.
“Anytime is Miller time!’’ Together Wendy, RE/MAX and The Russ Bailie Team will make your next move your best move by offering you “All the best for YOUR Success.’’
RE/MAX Nyda Realty
604.858.7179www.russbailie.com
meetwendy
miller
NYDA REALTY#1 - 7300 Vedder Rd.
New ListingNew Listing
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The Chilliwack Chiefs went to over-time for a sixth straight game, earning a hard fought 4-3 win over the visiting Vernon Vipers.
After losing 3-2 in OT to Penticton Friday and beating the West Kelowna Warriors by the same score Saturday, the Chiefs took to home ice Sunday to beat the Vipes on Kurt Black’s winner.
The Chiefs had to rally from two down in the third period to earn the win, improving to 30-16-1-3.
In a hugely pro-ductive weekend, Chilliwack earned five of a possible six points against Interior confer-ence foes.
Meanwhile, the Langley Rivermen took just two points from a three game Coastal divi-sion road trip.
The net result?Chilliwack now holds
a five point lead for first place in the Mainland division standings.
“That was a fun game to play in and bringing another game to over-time is nothing new for us,” laughed Jake Hand, who scored the game-tying goal in the final minute. “We definitely take a look at the stand-ings heading into the games and we know where our opponents are in the division. With just eight games left, a win like this is huge.”
It was Jordan Kawaguchi and Craig Puffer combining to open the scoring in this one.
With Vernon’s Luke Shiplo in the box and Chilliwack on the power play, Kawaguchi worked off the right-wing boards and feath-ered a pass across the goal-mouth to Puffer.
The Connecticut kid punched the puck past Vernon stopper Danny Todosychuk at 9:27, col-lecting his team-leading 25th of the year.
That was the only goal in a sloppy, scram-bly first period that saw Vernon out-shoot the Chiefs 8-6.
The Vipers turned up the heat and owned the middle frame. Looking like they were stuck in molasses, the home team lost every race and puck battle to the speedy Vipers, who hemmed the Chiefs into their own zone and fired 20 pucks at Chiefs keeper David Jacobson.
“I think it was more about what we weren’t doing than what they were doing,” Hand said. “They did a few things to adjust to our style, and I think at times we just got a bit lackadaisi-cal.”
Vernon tied the game at 1-1 at 9:30 on a curi-ous goal.
A Viper threw the puck into the goal mouth,where Jacobson couldn’t find it. Vernon attackers had one, two, three, four whacks and still the stopper didn’t know where it was.
Not until it was behind him and in the net, courtesy D-man Luke Shiplo.
The Vipers struck again in the final min-ute of period two when a Johnny Coughlin wrister from the left point evaded Jacobson through a screen of skaters, sending Vernon to period three with a 2-1 lead.
The Vipers seemed to get the insurance they needed 70 seconds into the final frame when Riley Brandt was allowed to skate unchecked into the slot and rifle a shot over
Jacobson’s glove for his 10th of the year.
But the Chiefs got their chance to climb back into it when Vernon ran into penalty trouble. With Mackenzie Bauer already in the box for interference, Mitchell Olivier got his stick up on Chilliwack forward Luke McColgan.
A double minor for high sticking gave the Chiefs a two man advan-tage for 1:17 and Dennis Cholowski made the Vipers pay. The rookie blueliner took a feed from Hand and, from the high slot, laz-ered a wrist shot over Todosychuk’s glove.
The Chiefs still had 2:35 in power play
time remaining, and came close to tying on a McColgan one-timer from the slot, but Vernon dodged the bul-let and resumed their even-strength domi-nance.
The Vipers kept up the aggressive forecheck, hounded Chilliwack attackers on the back-check and looked like they’d be able to kill the clock.
Jacobson was forced to make a spectacular save with time winding down, lunging back-wards Dominik Hasek-style with his stick to swat the puck away from Liam Coughlin. And when Jacobson was pulled for an extra
attacker with one min-ute to go, the stage was set for Hand’s last-min-ute dramatics.
“Without his saves we don’t get the win tonight,” Hand noted.
Puffer got the assist on Hand’s goal, scored at 19:21. He threw a centering pass into the goal-mouth, where Hand chipped it over Todosychuk’s left shoulder to send this one to overtime.
“I was just going hard to the net and felt some pressure from behind as I got hooked,” Hand explained. “I was just trying to get my stick on the puck and luckily it went in.”
A Vernon penalty
for too many men gave Chilliwack four-on-three power play in the first OT period.
The Chiefs buzzed the Vernon net like hornets, but came up empty.
With 2:25 left in three-on-three overtime the home team finally got the winner. Brandon Tkachuk put a puck on net from the top of the left faceoff circle. Todosychuk couldn’t control the rebound, letting it drop into the blue paint.
Brandon Potomak had the first crack at it, but couldn’t poke it in. Ex-Viper Kurt Black fol-lowed up, popping the puck past Todosychuk
to complete the come-back.
- Kawaguchi and Jake Larson had Chilliwack’s goals Friday in the Penticton loss, with Vees D-man Gabe Bast scoring the overtime winner.
Jacobson stopped 37 of 40 shots.
Larson came up with the winner in Saturday’s win over the Warriors, with Kawaguchi and Rory Bell scoring the other goals.
In a nice bounceback effort, goalie Aidan Pelino stopped 39 of 41 shots.
Chilliwack plays Friday night in Surrey versus the Eagles.
Sporting a retro ‘Rage’ jersey, Chilliwack Chief forward Scott Davidson (left) vies for the puck with Kelowna’s Jason Cotton during a Saturday night BCHL game at Prospera Centre. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS
Chiefs sting Vipers with third period comeback
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Sports
The Aboriginal Sport, Recreation and Physical Activity Partners Council has opened registration for a selection camp that will determine who plays for Team BC in the 2015 National Aboriginal Hockey Championships.
The camp runs March 27–29 at the Valleyview Arena in
Kamloops.Team BC coaching
staff will evaluate play-ers to pick the top 20 male and female hockey players.
They’ll travel to Halifax, NS in late April for the NAHC.
Chilliwack has sent several skaters to the tournament over the last three years.
Players must meet the following criteria to be eligible to partici-pate:
Males must be ban-tam or midget age as of the 2014-2015 competi-
tive season (born 1997 to 2001).
The same goes for females, though Team BC will be allowed to carry three overage players born in 1995 or 1996.
Players must be residents of BC with Aboriginal ancestry, and they must be reg-istered with BC Hockey or another Hockey Canada branch.
The camp fee is $120 per player, which includes a Team BC Selection Camp jersey.
Registration is avail-
able online at teambc-nahc.com until March 16.
The NAHC is the premier forum for elite bantam and midget aged players from across Canada.
It is the only annual event that showcases and celebrates the athletic abilities of Aboriginal hockey play-ers and aids in fostering cultural unity and pride.
For more informa-tion visit the BC Hockey website bchockey.net or email [email protected].
Tryout dates set for NAHC
Chilliwack Minor Baseball has a registration date Sunday.
Players in eight age divisions will be able to sign up from 1 to 4 p.m. at Cheam Source for Sports (9077 Young Road).
Registration can also be done online at cmb.goalline.ca.
A final in-person registration day will be held Feb. 28 at Cheam Source for Sports.
After that, registration will be closed.
● New and returning umpires are invited to a BC Baseball Umpires Association clinic March 14.
Level one and two clinics will take place at Watson elementary school.
Anyone who’s interested can contact CMBA’s umpire-in-chief, Mark Luknowsky, by email at [email protected] or register online at members.bcbua.ca
Two former Chilliwack Chiefs are playing in one of the most prestigious tour-naments in NCAA col-legiate hockey.
Luke Esposito and Phil Zielonka, mem-bers of the Harvard
Crimson, are part of a four-team field for the Beanpot tourney.
Their team lost their opener 4-3 Feb. 3 and next play in the con-solation game, versus Boston College on Feb. 23.
Chilliwack’s Stephen Strathdee and Isis Souza went 0-3, finishing 12th out of 13 teams at the 2015 Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, held Jan. 30 to Feb. 1 at White Rock’s Peace Arch Curling Club.
For more information about our Club,please contact Allan at604-792-3810
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Mt Cheam Lions had a very successful Leadership Rally the last weekend in January; the attendance exceeded the organizers expectations. There were great speakers including Mayor Sharon Gaetz who had the crowd in laughter & tears through her presentation.
We hold an all you can eat Spaghetti Dinner on the last Friday of each month other than the summer months. The funds raised at our dinners goes towards increasing the value of the $1,500 scholarships we present at each high school. These dinners are open to the public, we appreciate your support, the next one is February 27th in our hall.
One of our Lions Centennial Challenges is “Engaging our Youth”, the Chilliwack Lions have been doing this for 68 years with the annual Music and Dance Festival. The Festival is underway now at the Cultural Centre on Corbould, come and be a part of the audience supporting our youth.
Lions Clubs are known in North America for Spaghetti Dinners and Pancake Breakfasts, not to be left out, we do both. You may see us in our red shirts around Chilliwack ipping pancakes. We also help with a movie night once a month at Heritage Village where we have stepped outside the box providing hot dogs and popcorn for the residents.
Thank you to those who responded with wool for our group of knitters (we do that too), the wool is really appreciated as are the mittens. If anyone comes across more wool we are always interested.
If you would like more information on what we do give me a call, remember where there is a need, there is a Lion. I’m Allan Hunt with the Mt Cheam Lions.
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A stout defensive effort by the UNBC Timber wolves on Saturday evening in Prince George sent the University of the Fraser Valley men’s basketball team to just its second loss of the season.
The Cascades, 77-71 winners over UNBC on Friday, came into the rematch with the second-most prolific offence in Canada West (83.4 points per game) at their disposal.
But the T-Wolves managed to limit them to 26 points less than their average – they held UFV off the score-board for the last six and a half minutes of the fourth quarter, thus parlaying a slender 60-57 lead into a 69-57 triumph.
It was an uncharac-teristic offensive perfor-mance for the Cascades, who shot 33.8 per cent from the field and gen-
erated just eight free throw attempts (hit-ting five of them) while turning the ball over 20 times.
UFV, which leads the Explorer Division and holds the No. 9 rank-ing in the CIS national poll, saw its record dip to 16-2.
Power for ward Kadeem Willis was a bright light for the Cascades, counting a trio of three-pointers among his game-high 19 points. Fellow reserve Vijay Dhillon (10 points) was the only other UFV player to score in double figures.
UNBC had plenty of motivational fuel – it was the last home game for fifth-year seniors Franco Kouagnia, Devin McMurtry and Jeff Chu, and they were closing in on the pro-gram’s first-ever Canada West playoff berth.
Kouagnia (17 points, 12 rebounds) and McMurtry (12 points, 13 boards) both had double-doubles for the hosts, while Rhys Elliott scored 14 points and Chu chipped in with nine.
“It was senior night, and they had lots of energy and motivation,” Friesen noted. “We had a tough time matching that, and they played well.”
Get more UFV infor-mation online at ufvcas-cades.ca
The post players have been leading the charge for the University of the Fraser Valley women’s basketball team of late, and they were strong once again on Saturday evening in Prince George.
But on this night, it
was point guard Celeste Dyck’s turn to earn top billing.
Dyck, a fifth-year play-er out of Abbotsford’s Yale Secondary, poured in a game-high 22 points in exceedingly efficient fashion (8-for-14 from the field, 2-for-3 from beyond the arc, 4-for-4 from the free throw line) and added five steals as the Cascades defeated the UNBC Timberwolves 85-51.
“We really challenged Cel the last few weeks here to lead the team and manage the team,” UFV head coach Al Tuchscherer said. “It’s great that she scored
22 points tonight, but more than that, she did a great job of executing and running our stuff. She was the floor gen-eral we needed her to be.”
The 34-point margin of victory was the larg-est of the season for UFV, which improved to 11-7 on the season, good for third place in the Explorer Division of Canada West. Sixth-place UNBC fell to 2-16.
Centre Sarah Wierks (19 points, 10 rebounds) and power forward Katie Brink (16 points, 12 rebounds) stood tall in the paint for the Cascades, while sharpshooter Kaitlyn McDonald went 3-for-4 from downtown en route to 13 points off the bench.
UFV out-rebounded UNBC 52-31 and sur-rendered just 15 turn-overs compared to 27 for the T-Wolves.
“I think it was a pret-ty solid effort for the entire game tonight,” Tuchscherer said. “We played a good 40-min-ute game tonight, for sure, with contributions from a number of dif-ferent people. A lot of things that are pointing in the right direction.”
The Cascades bas-ketball teams wrap up the regular season at home next weekend vs. the Thompson Rivers WolfPack. Games run Friday (women 6 p.m., men 8 p.m.) and Saturday (women 5 p.m., men 7 p.m.) at the Envision Athletic Centre.
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Ball hockey tournament and free pancake breakfast!UFV Cascades and Chilliwack Chiefs present the inaugural Winter Classic Tournament
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Teams of four will be joined by a Chiefs player for each game. Age groups: 16 and up, 11 to 15, 10 and under
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The Hope & Area Transition Society is a non-profi t organization which provides programs to individuals affl icted by social issues. The Society is seeking applications for the permanent full-time position of an Adult Alcohol & Drug Counselor for the Outpatient Clinic.
Qualifi cations:The preferred candidate will have:• A Bachelor Degree in Social Work or an Undergraduate Degree
with specifi c preparation in Substance Abuse Counseling• Knowledge and understanding of the Bio-Psycho-Social-Spiritual
model and the Harm Reduction approach• Familiar with Alcohol and Drug screening and assessment tools• Be able to provide one-on-one counseling and group sessions• Be able to demonstrate professional and personal boundaries• Knowledge of programs, treatment centers, and detox programs
within the community and Lower Mainland• Ability to collect and submit appropriate data for statistical
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It is critical that this person be able to demonstrate ethical thinking and make sound judgments.
Ability to pass and maintain security clearance. This job will require a fl exible schedule to meet the needs of clients and the community.
Along with resume send a letter of interest indicating how you meet the qualifi cations stated above to:The Hope and Area Transition SocietyExecutive DirectorBox 1761 Hope, BC V0X [email protected]
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THE CHILLIWACK PATIENT ATTACHMENT MEDICAL OFFICE ASSISTANT position is an integral part of the A GP for Me patient attachment project at the Chilliwack Division of Family Practice. In this role, you will be expected to exercise sound judgment and independence while managing the day-to-day administrative activities related to the delivery of patient attachment. You will demonstrate a strong commitment to quality customer service, applying excellent problem solving and communication skills to ensure the success of the program.This position provides telephone reception for patient inquiries as well as support for clinical staff. This is a .5 FTE position of 20 hours per week. A competitive compensation package is provided.
QUALIFICATIONS:Education: High school diploma or graduation equivalency degree (GED). Medical Offi ce Assistant certifi cate or diploma obtained from a post-secondary clinical program. Experience: Previous medical offi ce administration experience with a minimum of fi ve years work experience in a medical offi ce setting.Skills: Telephone Etiquette, Customer Service, Oscar EMR, Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook, Time Management.
Please provide a covering letter and resume to Chilliwack Division of Family Practice no later than February 22, 2015.Attention: Ken Becotte, Executive Director [email protected]
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114 DRIVERS/COURIER/TRUCKING
SUTCO IS seeking U.S. qualifi ed Class 1 Drivers, steady year round Super B Flat Deck work. We offer group health benefi ts, matched con-tribution pension, e logs, and auto deposit pay. Apply on line at:sutco.ca/fax resume and abstract to (250)357-2009/call 1-888-357-2612 ext. 230
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124 FARM WORKERS
FARM Worker wanted on a berry farm in Chilliwack. Seasonal/full time. Duties incl manual weed con-trol, cultivation, harvest. Physically demanding. Ag experience an as-set. Start wage $10.50/hr. Will ne-gotiate terms of employment. Apply to [email protected] or 50080 Chilliwack Central Road Chilliwack BC V2P 6H3
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Butcher Helper (Chilliwack)
compensation: $15.26 / hour
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.
Please fax or email your resume’s to:
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FARM LABOURERS REQUIRED in Yarrow / Chilliwack area. $10.49/hr.
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130 HELP WANTED
Processing Plant Supervisor
(Chilliwack) compensation: $23.50 / hour
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.
Please fax or email your resume’s to:
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TAXI DRIVERS WANTED who have class 4 (or a higher class) license and clean driv-ers abstract. Good knowledge of Chilliwack area an asset. For more information and to send your resume please email: [email protected]
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BUSINESS SERVICES ................... 203-387
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BAYE (nee Cardno)Jeannette Marie
August 27, 1939 - January 29, 2015
After a seven year struggle with many health problems Jeannette passed peacefully with family members present at Cascade Care Facility Chilliwack, B.C. Jeannette is a much loved Nana to Nicholas & Catherine, mother to daughter Lynne & sons Kelly (Trudy) & Michael, wife of 54 years to husband Ed. She is survived by sisters Shirley & Norma many nieces & nephews & many friends. She was predeceased by her father George Cardno & mother Evelyn Cardno (nee Charman). Jeannette was born in Vancouver & raised in South Langley & Cloverdale. She is a 1956 graduate of Lord Tweedsmuir High School. Most of her working life as a book keeper was spent in BC, Manitoba & Yukon. She was an active volunteer in all the communities lived in serving on boards for rec. centres, bookkeeping for seniors’ orgs., and as a day camp supervisor. A Celebration of Life will be held from 11:00 Hs. To 13:00 Hs. on Sat. Feb. 14th at the R.C. Legion, Br#4, on Mary St. at Princess Ave. Chilliwack, B.C. In lieu of fl owers please make a donation to the Terry Fox Foundation or MS Society of Canada.
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Soutar, Marion (nee Baldwin)
June 22, 1931 - February 1, 2015
It is with profound sadness that we announce the loss of Marion Soutar, after a long and brave battle with lung dis-ease.Marion is survived by her hus-band D.K. (Sam) Soutar, son W.H. Soutar (Debora), daugh-ters D’Arcy (Brad) Henderson, and Ann Soutar. As well, 9 grandchildren, David (Kelly) Henderson, D’Arcy (Carla) Soutar, Dereck (Stephanie) Henderson, Jeremy (Kara) Henderson, Shea (Greg) Ir-ving, Sam Britton, Robbie (Chantelle) Soutar, Ian (Ra-fael) Soutar, and Lindsay Brit-ton. Marion also leaves behind 5 great-grandchildren, Brady and Rachel Henderson, Kam-ron Henderson, Rory Soutar and Odin Soutar. Brothers R.D. (Bob) Baldwin, Sandy (Cheryl) Baldwin. Also left are many nieces, nephews and cousins.She was predeceased by her parents, D’Arcy and Elsie Baldwin, and brother James Edward (Jim) Baldwin, neph-ew Jim Baldwin and sister in law Uldene (Dene) Baldwin.A celebration of life will be held at 2:00pm, Friday, Feb. 13th at Henderson’s Funeral Home, 45901 Victoria Ave, Chilliwack, with a tea to follow at the Coast Hotel, 45920 First Ave., Chilliwack.In lieu of fl owers, donations may be made to BC Childrens’ Hospital, or the Marion Soutar Leadership Bursary (University of the Fraser Valley).
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Jensen, MarySept 1, 1924Feb 5, 2015
Mary was born in Morse, Sask and passed away peacefully into the arms of Jesus in Ab-botsford on February 5, 2015, surrounded by family. She is survived by her hus-band Finn of 57 years; her children, Evan (Kristina), grandchildren, Kayla, Mitchell, Joel; Chris (Leona), grandchil-dren, Alicia, and her son Pre-stin, Tiffany, Shawn; Carolyn Wiens (Wes), grandchildren, Jason, Nick (Katherine), grandchildren Kurtis, Treyce and Aaliyah. Mary lived her live in service to her Lord and Saviour with her husband Finn by her side. She loved her children and grand-children unconditionally. She will be remembered for her loving, selfl ess spirit.A celebration of life was held February 10, 2015 at the Ab-botsford Church of the Nazu-reen
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