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BY PAUL J. HENDERSON

[email protected]

The backlash continues to grow to city hall’s recent rezoning approval for a haz-ardous waste recycling facil-

ity to deal with PCBs and mercury near the Fraser River.

Environmental groups, First Nations and the recreational fishing community scheduled a press con-ference Tuesday near the Cannor Road property west of Chilliwack

Mountain.Most of the opposition to the facil-

ity is focused on the location on the Cattermole Lands so close to the Fra-ser.

But groups opposed—which include the Sto:lo Tribal Council (STC), the B.C. Federation of Drift Fishers, the Watershed Watch Salm-

on Society and The WaterWealth Project—say they are also concerned with city council’s “handling of the public feedback window” and a “lack of consideration shown at the public hearing.”

It was at that hearing that, in response to STC fisheries advisor Ernie Crey’s request to delay a deci-

sion until First Nations could prop-erly respond, Mayor Sharon Gaetz addressed her concern about the Cheam band’s landfill. She called it a “toxic landfill,” which is “far more dangerous to our waters than a recy-cling operation.”

The Cheam landfill on the band’s reserve has long been alleged to have

been a dump for toxic construction materials.

Crey responded that the Cheam landfill has a “clean bill of health,” according to what he has been told. He and others also pointed out that Gaetz’s comments were a deflection and had nothing to do with the haz-ardous waste facility in question.

At its Dec. 3 meeting, city council approved the rezoning request by Ontario-based Aevitas to allow for

Cornelia Naylor/TIMES

Staff and students cheer as Santa makes a drive-by appearance on an ATV at Promontory elementary school Friday. Started by former principal and now Chilliwack school board chair Walt Krahn, the longstanding Promontory tradition has seen the jolly old elf make annual appearances on various forms of transportation for at least 14 years, according to current principal Joe Krajnyak.

Growing opposition to recycling plant

SCHOOLS MY OTHER CAR IS A SLEIGHPipeline impact studiedBY PAUL J. HENDERSON

[email protected]

An organization made up of B.C. businesses has shed further light on

what impact oil pipeline spills can have on communities, spe-cifically real estate values.

CRED BC, a group of more than 90 businesses and profes-sionals, released a report that concludes oil spills have direct and lasting impacts on property values.

The report looked at eight oil pipeline spills over the last 20 years, including Burnaby in 2007, and concluded that Kind-er Morgan’s proposed twinning of its Trans Mountain pipeline could put home values at risk, if a spill were to occur.

“If there is a spill or leak in the Vedder or the Fraser, there will be contamination and water-front homes will see impact,” CRED BC spokesperson Liz McDowell told the Times in an interview. “Public perception

Concerns about city’s handling of public feedback window and mayor’s remarks about Cheam landfill

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BY GLENDA LYMES

The Province

When your house burns down two weeks before Christmas, where does Santa deliver the

presents?That question is on four-year Billy Per-

ry’s mind as his parents struggle to make Christmas “normal” for the little boy and his three siblings.

On Monday, Billy was playing in the snow when a small heater inside his family’s Agassiz home caught fire.

It was 12:30 p.m. and his dad Bill Perry was in the barn, feeding the pony, pigs and chickens. After the chores, father and son planned to cut down a Christ-mas tree. Perry finished and headed back to the house.

Opening the front door, he saw an

inferno.The oxygen from the open door

fuelled the flames, causing the home’s windows to blow out.

“I grabbed Billy and put him in the truck, and then I rushed back,” Perry recalled Saturday.

He dashed into the house to rescue his son’s pet snake and the family’s two cats—an act his grateful wife called “heroic.”

He also grabbed his twin daughters’s saddle, knowing how much it means to them.

A passerby had called 9-1-1. Ambu-lance and fire services arrived.

Perry watched as everything went up in flames.

On Saturday, as they took care of their animals in the shadow of their ruined home, the family seemed resigned to their loss. Top of mind is finding a new place to rent where they can celebrate Christmas as a family.

“I don’t want to think about what would have happened if the fire had started at night while we were all sleep-ing,” said mom Connie Robberstad. “We’re grateful no one was hurt. Stuff is just stuff.”

But money is tight. The family didn’t have renter’s insurance and are living in a hotel in Chilliwack. Perry worked as a drywaller until he injured his back. He recently completed his Class 1 driver’s training and is preparing to take the test.

Kent elementary school, where nine-year-old Shamus and seven-year-old Constance and Veronica attend school, has started a fundraiser for the fami-ly. They’ve already reached $1,000, but hope to raise more.

Principal Chris Wejr said Agassiz is a supportive community.

“I think at this time of year, when there’s such a focus on gifts and decorat-ing and family, it makes it harder to have your home taken away,” he said. “I think people have empathy and just want to help.”

Donations are being coordinated through the Kent elementary school Facebook page, where there is a link to a FundRazr page with more information.

Mounties in Chilli-wack, Agassiz, Hope and Boston Bar

braved the cold last Satur-day and collected 18,413 pounds of food and $4,771 in cash for community food banks during the RCMP’s annual Stuff the Cruiser Christmas fundraiser.

“This was a great event that saw the community come together to help those in need. I would like to thank those individuals who helped make this year’s Stuff the Cruiser event one of the best years yet,” RCMP Cpl. Harinder Kheleh said in a press release.

Kheleh sent out special thanks to PriceSmart Foods in Salish Plaza, Save-On-Foods in Vedder Plaza, Cooper’s Foods in Hope and Garrison Plaza, SuperValu in Agassiz, Prestige Sport Fishing, Sport Chek, COBS Bread, Chilliwack Chiefs Hockey, Tim Hortons and Kal Tire.

Cruisercharity event a big win

the plant that, each month, will recycle 5,000 litres of transformer oil containing PCBs and 500,000 lamps containing mercury.

Part of the dispute centres around how the public was notified of the pub-lic hearing. But city hall followed stan-dard legal requirements in accordance with the Local Government Act, namely, newspaper ads, a sign on site and notifi-cation of neighbours within 30 metres of

the site.While the groups opposed to the facil-

ity have so far focused on city hall, the municipality’s role involved nothing more than the rezoning of the property in question from heavy industrial to special industrial.

The operation will also have to be approved by the provincial Ministry of Environment, and the owners will have to sign a “good neighbour” agreement to deal with complaints down the road.

Aevitas president Byron Day addressed council on Dec. 3 to say the company has 20 years of experience doing this work on a larger scale in Brantford, Ontario.

He said the work would be done in an enclosed facility with emergency pro-tection, fire suppression equipment and flood protection measures.

Day did not respond to an email request for an interview to explain the project further and why the site in ques-tion was chosen.

Family burnt out for ChristmasAgassiz rallying to make things normal for children

Planning to recyclePCBs and mercury

PLANT, from page 1

Ken Goudswaard/TIMES

The Chilliwack Chiefs may not be winning on the ice, but their fans continue to support the team and its annual Teddy Bear And Toque Toss for Chilliwack Community Services. See more on the Chiefs weekend on page 12.

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Good-willed students at a local elemen-tary school will be donating school supplies to children in Africa this holi-

day season, which only adds on to their grow-ing list of good deeds.

Students at Promontory Heights elementa-ry were invited to decorate one of the Christ-mas trees for the third annual Festival of Trees event at the Coast Chilliwack Hotel on Dec. 10.

Following a school supplies theme, a group of 30 kids made decorations out of pencils, crayons, pencil boxes, glue sticks and rulers.

Rather than have them collect dust or go to waste, it was decided the new and gently used items would be sent to Africa and given to children who would make use of them, said Jody Holford, Grade 5 teacher at Promontory Heights elementary.

But that’s only the tip of the iceberg, as the humanitarian-minded students are also part of a district-wide project to build a school in Kenya.

After attending a We Day conference through Free the Children—a global non-profit organi-zation that motivates youth to create change—in October, teachers at Rosedale, Tyson, Cheam, Promontory, G.W. Graham, Central,

Unsworth, Greendale, Mount Slesse and Ved-der middle joined forces to work towards erect-ing a school through the organization.

It will cost $20 per brick and 500 bricks builds a school. The total cost will be about $10,000, which students hope to raise by the end of the year, Holford said.

Students at Promontory are also engaged in a variety of local efforts, which are spearhead-ed through their Helping Hands group—a cohort of Grade 5 and 6 students who raise money and awareness for initiatives that mat-ter to them.

Since being established three years ago, the group has managed to raise more than $10,000 for different causes, including $2,000 for a water initiative, $3,500 for multiple sclerosis and $5,000 for the Make-a-Wish Foundation, which coincidentally funded a trip to Florida for a former Promontory student last year.

“Everybody remembered her,” Holford said. “It was a luck of the draw kind of thing, that it was her we ended up helping.”

But the altruistic work doesn’t stop there, as Helping Hands also organizes food drives during Thanksgiving and Christmas for local families in need.

“They’re so awesome,” Holford said of the group, of which she is a facilitator. “And you know what . . . as a teacher and mom I think it kind of makes me want to do better.”

Money is raised through creative means that the students conjure up, including coin drives, candygrams and challenges hosted through-out the school.

It is currently unknown where in Africa the school supplies will go, but Holford suspects it will be Kenya, where a majority of their chari-table work is done.

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Giving globally

Sharron Ho/TIMES

Grade 1 students at F.G. Leary Fine Arts elementary decorated one of the Christ-mas trees at the Coast Chilliwack Hotel on Dec. 10 for its third annual Festival of Trees event. (Top) F.G. Leary Fine Arts stu-dent Lily Lefurgy, 6, smiles for the camera as she dresses the Christmas tree with cotton. Georgia Leon, 6, carefully adds a thread of tinsel near the bottom of the tree. All trees were decorated by local elementary school students and public voting is currently open. The trees will be on public display until Dec. 31 and a win-ner will be announced in early January.

It’s a growing list of good deeds for Promontory Heights elementary students

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News‘Archaic’ system will cost district $500K to replace

The Chilliwack school district will spend more than half a million dollars over the next two years to replace a financial/human resourc-es information system that secretary-treasurer Gerry Slykhuis called archaic and labour intensive.

The school board unani-mously approved the expen-diture last Tuesday. The total cost will be $569,000—$300,000 for software, $45,000 for hardware, $9,000 in tax and $215,000 for implemen-tation.

The district will also see a $8,000 increase in annual licence fees. But Slykhuis said the system will pay for itself within three and a half years because it will also come with an annual staffing cost sav-ings of $170,000.

“These types of systems are not inexpensive; however, they pay for themselves many times over in efficiencies, bet-ter informed decision mak-ing, and reduced paperwork and bureaucracy,” Slykhuis stated in his report.

Public can go online to register policy feedback

Members of the public can now give the Chilliwack school district online feed-back about policies being reviewed by its education policy advisory committee.

Effective immediately, the district will post policies under review on its website so students, parents and the community can provide com-ments before the policies are presented to the board for

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For more information, visit www.sd33.bc.ca and click on the Board of Education tab.

School board defeats motion to pay tuition fee

The Chilliwack school board voted down a motion by Trustee Heather Maahs proposing the board help pay tuition for local students to attend the RCMP Youth Academy.

At a meeting last week, Maahs moved the board pay $100 of the $400 fee for each student attending the eight-day work experience program designed for students inter-ested in policing careers.

Maahs called the program a “work experience program bar none” but said it was in trouble because organizers are burnt out by fundraising. Her motion was defeated 5-2, however, with only Maahs and Trustee Martha Wiens supporting it.

Trustees who opposed it argued that, while the acad-emy is worthwhile, it would be a slippery slope to start directly funding programs.

“It will become never end-ing,” Trustee Silvia Dyck said. “We are not a funding agency in that regard.”

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A man was airlifted to hospital from the Chil-liwack River Valley last

week after shooting himself accidentally in the abdomen with a rifle.

The man’s partner called 9-1-1 at about 8:32 a.m. Wednesday morning, and an ambulance was on the scene before Police arrived.

Chilliwack RCMP say the 61-year-old had been at his home handling the recently purchased firearm, when it fell and fired into his midsection.

The bullet entered his abdo-men and exited out of his chest.

“At this point we’re still investigating, but it does appear to be accidental,”

RCMP spokesperson Const. Cynthia Kershaw told the Times.

The man was in stable con-dition after being moved by air ambulance from near his Riverview Drive home to a Lower Mainland hospital.

“Police would like to take this opportunity to remind firearms users to treat a gun as if it’s always loaded,” Ker-shaw said. “Regardless of your experience with firearms, always inspect your firearm prior to handing it to ensure there is not a round in the chamber, and unload it prior to any activity that may fore-seeably result in an accidental discharge.”

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Honeywell fails to clear the air on rankingBY PAUL J. HENDERSON

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A large American company and its Boston-based PR firm likely didn’t envisage having to defend the accu-

racy of a claim that the air around Chilliwack is among the cleanest in Canada.

But that’s the position Honeywell Air Purifiers found itself in last week after the Fraser Valley Regional Dis-trict (FVRD) was quick to denounce the science behind the AirGenius Awards.

“Where can you find the cleanest air in Canada?” a Honey AirGenius Awards press release from Nov. 25

stated. “In short, the answer is Brit-ish Columbia.”

The air quality rankings were evaluated, according to Honeywell, by scientists at global consulting firm Environmental Health & Engi-neering, and recognized Langley as having the cleanest air, followed by Kelowna, Abbotsford and Rich-mond.

The problem for the FVRD with the otherwise innocuous press release—a claim to fame that some communities might be proud of—is

that it undermines the regional dis-trict’s claims that Fraser Valley air quality is poor and so Metro Van-couver should not be allowed to build a waste-to-energy incinerator in the Lower Mainland.

Chill iwack mayor and F VRD board chair Sharon Gaetz called the claims in the original Honeywell press release “gravely misleading.” She said that while air quality in the Fraser Valley has improved over the last 20 years, ground-level ozone levels are still a problem.

“Any increase in emissions of air contaminants in the fragile Fraser Valley airshed from an additional incinerator, as proposed by Metro Vancouver, or other sources, will significantly undermine air quality improvements in the Fraser Valley,” Gaetz said.

She added that despite repeated requests, Environmental Health & Engineering has not made the study available identifying the clean air cities.

After the Times reported on the

FVRD’s response to Honeywell, the company issued a statement, which said the rankings were based on “a qualitative meta-analysis of existing environmental data available to the public.”

The researchers who conducted the analysis focused on compar-ing the cities across Canada to one another, and the company stands by its rankings.

“We recognize that air quality is a major concern for local commu-nities and encourage citizens and local governments to continue to make efforts to reduce pollutants caused by vehicle emissions, indus-trial facilities and other factors,” the statement said.

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Chilliwack Times

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The organization hopes local res-idents will donate blood and help contribute to a collection goal of more than 75,500 donations country-wide and 14,400 donations locally.

The clinics will take place at the Broadway Church Gym, located at 46611 Maple Ave., on Dec. 23 from 1:30 to 7:30 p.m. (nine appoint-ments open) and Dec. 27 from 12 to 5 p.m. (53 appointments open).

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According to research compiled by Statistics Canada, there are many reasons for philanthropy: people have a relationship with a particular charity; they wish to create immortality by leaving a leg-acy; they want to feel good about themselves; they respond to social responsibility; or they just appreci-ate the tax advantages.

Charities should appeal to these reasons and focus attention on educating the public about the benefits of reconsidering the way they give. Many Canadians donate ad hoc, tossing money into dona-tion bins or writing cheques to local charitable events. Instead, with some extra thought and plan-ning, their generosity can be max-imized to benefit both themselves

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Donors can make grant recom-mendations on which registered charities receive donations. In return they are provided with an immediate tax benefit that can be carried forward up to five years, and they have a continuing philan-thropic legacy.

A Charitable Remainder Trust is an option for older donors who wish to donate to charity but still require the income from their investment. Assets are transferred into a trust and the donor gets an immediate tax benefit. The donor continues to receive income during their lifetime and the char-ity receives the assets when the donor dies.

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Hard not to compare and reflectPremier Christy Clark and the BC

Liberals have hitched their wagon of future job creation onto resource extraction, which, in a growing world

might not be such a bad idea.But it’s hard not to look eastward with a

slightly envious eye at Ontario Premier Kath-leen Wynne who couldn’t wipe the grin off her face at a press conference on Friday to announce Cisco’s $4-billion investment.

The 10-year agreement could see as many as 1,700 new, highly paid, high-tech jobs in Canada’s largest province.

Back here in Chilliwack, the Fraser Val-ley and British Columbia, the hot topic of discussion is Kinder Morgan’s proposed $5.4-billion project to triple the capacity of its 1,150-kilometre oil sands pipeline.

The company said it planned to file its facilities application Monday, which could lead to National Energy Board hearings in the new year.

This pipeline will bring Alberta crude across B.C.’s mountains, through Chilliwack and the Fraser Valley and on to Burnaby where it will be put onto oil tankers and shipped to Asia.

The pipeline expansion project will mean hundreds of jobs during construction, most of them unskilled labourers, but also dozens of tradespeople, surveyors and machine operators.

The spin off business for hotels, restaurants and other sub-contractors on the project will mean considerable dollars, again, during construction.

At the end of the day, the Lower Mainland will have not one but two oil pipelines run-ning through our communities and, wait for it, about 50 new jobs across the length of the pipeline.

Wynne has a $4-billion investment leading to 1,700 permanent high-tech jobs.

Clark has a $5.4-billion investment leading to 50 jobs (not all in B.C.).

Hundreds of clean jobs that speak to pres-ent and the future of our global economy.

A few dozen jobs maintaining what is, arguably, an anachronistic resource.

Computers and oil—apples and oranges, to be sure, but it’s hard not to compare and reflect.

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Editor:May I just say how sick to

death I am of the self-righ-teous parents complaining about the location of the EFI (Early French Immersion) at Cheam?

I just fail to understand the audacity of some people. They clearly care a great deal about their children, their values and their education. They fight for the EFI in their own city and then say, “Oh no, that’s not good enough.” Really?

Well guess what parents? There are drug deals going down all over your precious city. If you care about the kind of adults your children will turn into, how about not teaching them to be elitist snobs? How about teaching about love, compassion, for-giveness and understanding?

Do you want your kids raised in a bubble? Naive and uneducated? I have seen kids buy drugs at G.W. Graham, Mount Sleese and other schools in this fair city so open your prejudiced eyes. Chilliwack senior is a fantastic school and the largest school in B.C. in case you were unaware.

Both Chilliwack middle and Chilliwack senior educate amazing, smart, passionate, determined children every day. Do they have youth with challenges too? Does the area have social issues? You bet. But guess what folks? So does every other school in B.C.

If you want it all your way—pay up and go to pri-vate school. If not, how about being part of the solution. If you want communities to change, I believe the only way they do that is by commu-nities working together for a better future.

Christine KrugerChilliwack

Don’t judge Chwk middleEditor:

I have watched with much interest in regards to the EFI. Kudos to the parents for per-severing for something they believe in. I understand you want what is best for your child in whatever manner you see fit. However, now you are complaining about the mid-dle school your child could possibly attend in seven years. Seriously?

Yes, it’s an inner-city middle school. It also is a closed cam-pus and students cannot leave the grounds as in most middle schools.

I invite you to visit Chilli-wack middle school, which both my children attended, and thrived and were A and B honour students. The admin-istration was amazing with wonderful teachers and great programs. Not a few years ago when my children attended, out of 500 students, 300 were on the honour roll. That’s a great statistic.

You are judging a book by its cover. Do you honestly think there is no “question-able behaviour” in your sur-roundings or near schools? Think again.

Be careful what you wish for, goes the saying. You are worrying about something that hasn’t happened yet. Your daughter/son will survive going to “that” school.

Many working parents who have chosen to have their chil-dren attend a school outside of their catchment, commute or make arrangements to have their child(s) arrive safely. Don’t start complaining when parents have been commuting for years already.

I will be truly disappoint-ed with the school district if they decided to have French immersion in middle school on the southside, which is already bursting at the seams. If you actually look at other school districts, you will find such programs are in areas to fill schools that have the room. Silly, I know, but it works.

Karen Bradwell Chilliwack

Don’t be fooled by burner mythEditor:

Re: Talking trash on burners, by Tom Moul, Times, Dec. 10.

In “Talking trash on burners,” the CEO of a local company that unsuccessfully proposed to build an incinerator in Metro Vancouver, wants us to believe that burning garbage makes it disappear, and to distract us from the real issue.

Not clear yet on what the real issue is? Well, take a deep breath in, and think about where the other 80 per cent of waste burned in an incin-erator goes; it doesn’t just disappear.

The recent opinion piece insinuates that hazardous and recyclable materials are “carefully removed” before burning, but the fact is that Metro Vancouver dumps raw, unsorted curbside garbage into its Burnaby incinerator, and has no plans to imple-ment careful removal of these materials. If Metro Vancouver did remove all recyclable materials, an incinerator would no longer be financially viable. That’s because the material which contains the majority of heat generation

potential as fuel are recy-clables, such as plastics and paper.

Incineration proponents like to cite the number of incinerators in Europe, but although many were built in the past, European countries are now realizing the error of their ways and moving away from incineration. Countries like Denmark, the self-pro-claimed “world-champions of waste incineration” where the Minister of Environ-ment recently denounced the practice, now recognize incineration as an unsustain-able practice. It discourages recycling, it discourages pro-ducer responsibility, but most importantly, it destroys our resources forever.

If only it were true that waste incinerators produce “enormous amounts of elec-tricity” as claimed in the opin-ion piece, but that is simply not the case. Incineration of municipal solid waste is an incredibly inefficient method of generating power. For each tonne of garbage torched in the burner, 12 gigajoules of power is generated, but we must expend 17 gigajoules to harvest new raw materials to replace the ones destroyed. That’s a net loss of power.

Burning garbage is not a 21st century solution. A com-bination of Advanced Mate-rials Recovery and Extended Producer Responsibility is cheaper, greener, and truly sustainable and responsible solution to waste manage-ment.

Sharon Gaetz, ChairFraser Valley Regional District

Pipeline fears kind of funnyEditor:

Some of the concerns being expressed regarding the pro-posed twinning of the Kinder Morgan pipeline through the Cheam Wetlands Regional Park are rather funny.

Many of the ponds and much of the wetlands are the result of holes being dug in the ground as part of a rath-er crude mining operation. The area was mined for marl which is a lime rich soil used by farmers as a soil condition-er. When the mine closed the holes filled up with water and with a little help from local organizations and a lot of help

from Mother Nature, the area became the wonderful wildlife area that it is today.

If an application was made to mine an area such as this today, it is doubtful if it would be allowed, and if it was, the mining company would be required to fill in all the holes and plant the area with trees when they finished operating. The end result would have been a small lake and a small stream with little of the wet-lands that are so rich in life.

The Cheam Wetlands Regional Park is really quite spectacular but I doubt that the pipeline, built to current environmental standards, will cause irreparable damage to an area that is to some extent the result of environmental abuse in the first place.

Jack CarradiceChilliwack

Typical Harper gov’t movesEditor:

Kudos to Chilliwack resi-dent Ian Stephen for keeping watch in regards to our federal government’s fishery minis-try’s policy. The Conservative government, for its own rea-son, is reluctant to implement the recommendations of the Cohen Commission, even though they spent $26 million inquiring.

It’s obvious the federal gov-ernment isn’t pleased with the results of its own inqui-ry, and has no intention of interfering with the open-net containment fish farm lobby. This has proven to be an easy source of revenue for the fed-eral government, so the loss of this revenue due to any sort of conversion to closed contain-ment fish farms would cost the federal government dearly in capital and expense writeoffs of existing producers.

This type of fiscal behaviour has been a trademark of the Harper Conservatives. Not unlike building new oil pipe-lines, even though we know they’re far more polluting, for easy money instead of invest-ing in natural gas. Similarly, it’s the same with the fish farms, why worry about fish lice and disease, to jeopardize govern-ment coffers.

Obviously, the present Conservative government hasn’t realized the potential of rebuilding our fishery past the next federal election. The real potential for a prosperous fish-ery is to develop both closed containment and rebuild our natural fish stocks, which unfortunately, is going to take some time.

So for the government to take down the Cohen Com-mission website is actually counter productive to what they are trying to do. If we lose the fishery, not only will it cost us billions of dollars, but we’ll lose a major source of protein.

Art GreenHope

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Laurie Throness was on employment insurance (EI) and John Martin

has a friend who owes him some money.

Beyond that—and if that—there isn’t much of interest or much detail in the financial disclosure statements recent-ly released by the two local Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA).

The legally mandated state-ments show no dollar figures, but list sources of income, assets and liabilities for all MLAs.

I n a d d i t i o n t o h i s E I ,

Throness reported his sourc-es of income as his MLA sala-ry, his University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) salary, and con-sulting fees for Chuck Strahl Consulting and the Centre for Organizational Governance

in Agriculture.The Chilliwack-Hope MLA’s

only liability is his mortgage on an Abbotsford property.

His assets include that prop-erty, bank deposits, RRSPs, shares in Santa Fe Gold Corp.,

and Nexus Group Intl.He also has shares inside

a registered plan in Altair Nanotechnologies, Electro-vaya, First Nickel and Meth-anex Corp. Intl. Throness also listed pension rights and “miscellaneous personal valuables.”

Under income, Chilliwack MLA Martin listed his MLA salary, his UFV salary and no salary from his spouse.

His liabilities are on his Chilliwack home and a line of credit.

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G.W. Graham’s senior boys and girls basketball teams faced some of the best AA teams in the province at their own Grizzlies Showcase tour-

nament over the weekend, earning eighth- and fifth-place finishes respectively

The boys battled through two tough losses in the 12-team boys draw Thursday and Friday, dropping their first game against fellow provincial honourable men-tions Westsyde 70-41 and their second to eighth-ranked D.P. Todd 80-58.

They prevailed over Archbishop Carney 71-56 Satur-day, however, with Treyvon Walsh earning the game star.

Ryan Kaplanis was recognized with second-team all-star honours for the tournament.

On the girls side, Graham opened the eight-team draw with a 56-44 victory over Britannia Friday before falling to St. Thomas Aquinas 53-41 and Notre Dame 76-64 on Saturday.

Graham’s Jenika Bannerman led the Grizzlies with a game star against Britannia and a second-team all star for the tournament.

Chilliwack secondary’s senior girls team, meanwhile, made a last-minute appearance as the third local team in the tournament after a team from the Interior was snowed in and had to cancel.

Playing in a field stacked with provincially ranked double-A teams, the triple-A Storm lost 88-32 to Notre Dame, 72-41 to Windsor and 74-34 to Wellington.


G.W. Graham’s Jenika Bannerman battles for a loose ball during the senior girls Grizzlies opening game against Britannia at the Gra-ham Grizzlies Showcase Invitational tournament Friday.


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G.W. Graham’s Erin Steele puts up an easy layup.


G.W. Graham’s Heather Thomson gets past a Britannia opponent.


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It was a weekend of charity in the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL) but the Chilliwack Chiefs

received a couple lumps of coal from the Penticton Vees and the Prince George Spruce Kings.

The home team was handed its eighth straight loss Friday at Pros-pera Centre then hopped on the bus Sunday for an 800-kilometre bus ride only to make it nine in a row at the Prince George Coliseum.

With fewer games behind them than most teams, the Chiefs have a busy December schedule. They lost six in a row over the previous two weekends by a cumulative score of 35-13. The team was up against three more scheduled this weekend but a labour dispute at the City of Prince George caused problems. The games were initially cancelled, but the team reported late Saturday that Spruce Kings general manager Mike Hawes spent most of the day in talks with CUPE Local 399, the City of Prince George and the Chiefs to come up with the rescheduled dates and times.

But first, Friday night in Chilli-wack, the top team in the BCHL rolled into town and, again, rolled over the Chiefs by a score of 6-3. (The Vees beat the Chiefs 9-4 two weeks ago.)

Neither the score line nor the records of the first and second-last place teams in the league told the story, however. The first period was tight and hard fought by the Chiefs who managed 18 shots against a stingy Olivier Mantha between the Vees’ pipes.

At 13:46 of the first, the Vees scored on a sharp angle shot from

the corner that hit a leg and bounced to Travis Blanlell who made it 1-0.

Then at 5:19 of the second, Pent-icton’s Jack Ramsey took a pass from Max Coatta and undressed young Josh Cronin playing in his second game for the Chiefs. Ramsay then put the puck past Spencer Tremblay five-hole on the backhand.

But the Chiefs fought back hard, first with a power-play goal by Jake Hand at 8:33 of the second period, the goal that initiated a flurry of ted-dy bears and toques to be tossed on the ice to be donated to Chilliwack Community Services.

The Chiefs kept coming and 43 seconds later Carter Cochrane was in alone on a slow-developing breakaway to put in his 12th of the year to tie the game at two.

It was solid work all around by the home team, but a three-minute stretch during a 20-shot Vees second period sunk them. It started with a Cochrane high-sticking penalty at 11:35 followed by a Shay Laurent

boarding call at 11:59 leaving the best team in the league with a five-on-three against the lowly Chiefs.

Twenty-two seconds later, Ben Dalpe tipped one in to make the score 3-2 for the visitors.

A minute later, Steen Cooper took the air out of Prospera Centre mak-ing it 4-2.

And another minute-and-a-half after that, Mitch Newsome scored a weird one as the puck tipped twice on the way to the net making the score 5-2.

The Vees then made it 6-2 in the third. The Chiefs earned a consola-tion goal as Tibbet fed a nice pass to a streaking Andrew Silard who scored a power play marker for the final goal of the game.

Because of the labour dispute in P.G., the Chiefs had the day off Satur-day. They seemed to show up late on Sunday, mentally missing the first period notching just seven shots ver-sus the Spruce Kings’ three goals on 21 shots against Josh Halpenny.

This was another night of charity as new gloves, socks and toques in plastic bags were thrown on the ice when the Spruce Kings scored their first goal of the game.

That first period of scoring was all the home team needed as the Chiefs could only muster four shots in the second and 10 in the third. Austin Plevy scored a power-play goal from Cooper Rush and Kiefer McNaughton at 16:50, but after pulling the goalie, Justin Rai scored an empty netter with 19 seconds to play to end it 4-1.

The shot deficit again plagued the Chiefs who were doubled 44-21 by the Spruce Kings. In the loss, Hal-penny saved 40 while his opponent, Alex Murray, needed half that num-ber for the win.

In their last eight games, the Chiefs have been outscored 45-17.

The 7-24-1-2 Chiefs were sched-uled to play the Spruce Kings again Monday night after the Times went to press. Their next home game is Friday night, again against Prince George.

chiefsextraUpcoming games: Dec. 20 - Prince George @ Chilliwack 7 p.m. Dec. 21 - Trail @ Chilliwack 7 p.m.

Mainland DivisionTEAM GP W L T OTL PTSLangley 37 22 11 1 3 48 Prince George 33 19 10 2 2 42Coquitlam 34 16 15 0 3 35Surrey 35 15 19 1 0 31Chilliwack 34 7 24 1 2 17

Interior DivisionTEAM GP W L T OTL PTSPenticton 35 24 7 1 3 52 Vernon 35 19 9 3 4 45 Salmon Arm 35 18 11 1 5 42 Merritt 35 18 14 2 1 39W. Kelowna 32 18 11 1 2 39Trail 35 7 25 2 1 17

Island DivisionTEAM GP W L T OTL PTSVictoria 36 22 9 3 2 49 Powell River 33 22 7 2 2 48Nanaimo 36 18 17 0 1 37 Cowichan Valley 36 13 22 0 1 27Alberni Valley 35 9 20 2 4 24

Chiefs leading scorersPLAYER GP G A PTSA. Plevy 33 15 20 35 C. Cochrane 34 12 17 29 Z. Diamantoni 34 4 21 25 M. Tibbet 34 7 14 21C. Rush 33 5 14 19

BCHL notes

The Victoria Grizzlies have relieved head coach and general manager

Bill Bestwick of his duties with the club. The new ownership group, which took over operations Dec. 9, has decided it was important to move in a different direction immediately. Craig Didmon assumed head coaching duties for the hockey club.

Losing streak hits nine games


Chilliwack Chief forward Andrew Silard battles in front of the Vees net Friday night at Prospera Centre.

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CHILLIWACK TIMES Tuesday, December 17, 2013 A13 CHILLIWACK TIMES Tuesday, December 17, 2013 A13

BY SHARRON HO

Chilliwack Times

A b a t c h o f k i d s w h o recently graduated from a health and fitness pro-

gram offered at the Chilliwack YMCA this fall, exhibited posi-tive change shortly after taking part in the program.

The Mind, Exercise, Nutri-tion, Do it! (MEND) program aims to help children adopt a healthy lifestyle. The program is designed for kids who are above a healthy weight and between the ages of seven and 13. The 10-week program has been facilitated throughout the U.K. and North America for the last 13 years, and made its way to Chilliwack in October.

From the get-go, 15 chil-dren and their families reg-istered. Although only four children managed to complete the program from start to finish, Andrea Gieselman, program manager and theory leader for the Chilliwack MEND program, said it was “neat” to see how quickly positive changes were made.

“Families that were able to stick with the program all the way through, they have been able to see some really impact-ful changes and neat growth, and positive changes in their families in the short amount of time the program was.” Giesel-man said.

Changes in children included better concentration and per-formance in school, as noticed by teachers and parents, and being more proactive about physical activity and nutri-tion. The program focuses on health, nutrition, food choic-es, goal setting and physical activity in daily life. Parents are also encouraged to participate alongside their children, and will receive information on ways to role model and elimi-nating negative triggers for pos-itive ones.

The MEND program is being offered a second time begin-ning on Jan. 9, and registration is currently open. Classes will take place on Thursdays from 6 to 8 p.m. and Saturdays from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Chil-liwack senior secondary.

The program is free to attend and is funded through the Ministry of Health and Childhood Obesity Founda-tion. Proven health benefits of MEND include increased car-diovascular fitness, increased physical activity per week for participants and improvements in body image and self-esteem.

◗ To be eligible, children must be aged between seven and 13, and have a body mass index of 85 per cent or higher. To learn more about MEND, visit www.bchealthykids.ca.To register, contact Gieselman at 604-799-3732 or [email protected].

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BY SHARRON HO

Chilliwack Times

Serving as the training grounds for the region’s next crop of farmers, the new, state-of-the- art barn and greenhouse at the

University of the Fraser Valley’s (UFV) Chilliwack campus are seen as an investment in B.C.’s food security.

With the Agriculture Centre of Excel-lence slated for completion early next year, politicians, UFV faculty and agri-culture students received a glimpse of what’s to come on a construction tour on Dec. 12.

“Food security is so important for British Columbians. We grow 40 per cent of our own food now, but we are susceptible to things that occur across the world, that could be a hurricane or otherwise or civil unrest,” Advanced Education Minister Amrik Virk, told the Times. “Sixty per cent of our food grows . . . outside, we want to grow our food here.”

Virk said the centre is an investment in B.C.’s food security, as students will use the facilities to learn the best methods for raising livestock and crops under the guidance of industry professionals.

“You want to have that next genera-tion to go back to the farm to produce food for all of us. So this is absolutely investing in students. This is going to be hands-on training they’re going to receive, the hands-on training that’s going to get them a job when they graduate.”

Virk was joined by Chilliwack-Hope MLA Laurie Throness and Chilliwack MLA John Martin.

The centre, which is being built to replace structures at UFV’s old cam-pus on Yale Road, will be home to the tallest, multi-peak greenhouse in North America.

Just under 12 metres in height, the 600-square-metre greenhouse is also the first in the world that can pressur-ize and depressurize each of it’s bays, allowing for remediation control.

“If one crop is running into trouble and you have to spray, you can depres-surize that bay, or if you’ve got a bug

infestation, you can isolate it and not lose everything,” said Timothy D. Ken-drick, president of BW Global Struc-tures, the company that designed the greenhouse.

The structure also has a polycar-bonate covering that allows for 95 per cent light diffusion, which increases

productivity. “There was a tomato grower in Tex-

as that went from a double polyhouse to an earlier generation of this and his general yield from year to year was up 20 to 30 per cent all grades and market grade went up over 60 per cent,” Kend-rick said.

Other features include an ultra-sonic misting system and built-in fall restraints.

The greenhouse will provide a con-trolled and focused environment for field and lab exercises as well as sup-port research and projects required for undergraduate courses.

Neighbouring the greenhouse is a 783-square-metre demonstration barn that will simulate large scale opera-tions and provide an opportunity for students to gain hands-on experience in animal husbandry.

“We’ve got a set up for chicken, for turkeys, for laying, we’re going to have automatic nests so it will be free-run,” said Paul Gumprich, head of the live-stock department at UFV. “So they’ll be in the barn but the won’t get access to the outside.”

There will also be a swine barn, which will include farrowing crates, a nursery, and two grower rooms.

“It will be the most humane, up-to-date equipment for hosting those ani-mals,” Gumprich said.

Construction on the Agriculture Centre of Excellence at Canada Edu-cation Park began in July, after the $2.5 million project received a $1-million investment from the province.

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MLA Laurie Throness, MLA John Martin, Advanced Education Minister Amrik Virk and Craig Toews, executive director of campus planning at UFV, listen to Timothy D. Kendrick, president of BW Global Structures, during a construction tour of the new greenhouse on Dec. 12 at UFV.


BY LESLIE ROSS

Special to the Times

Not many people are aware of some common holiday season hazards that can warrant a very hasty and

emotional trip to the vet. For example, handcrafted edible

Christmas ornaments such as the ones school children often make and proudly bring home can be eaten by an unsuper-vised pet, often resulting in dire conse-quences.

A common example is an ornament made of Styrofoam and decorated with marshmallows or soft candies.

I vividly remember just such a case last Christmas that resulted in the poor dog requiring emergency surgery to remove upwards of 40 pins from his stomach. Understandably, it was a very difficult time for the clients as much as for the dog.

To avoid this kind of hazard, it is best to keep pets out of festively decorated areas and to ensure that any edible ornamental treats are hung high and very securely.

Other significant dangers to cats and dogs are parts of glass ornaments, tin-sel, decorative string and ribbons, all of which can cut up the intestines of the unfortunate pet.

Holiday scented candles are a further hazard to have around pets. They can be tipped over by boisterous pets of course, resulting in a house fire risk. Also, some contain essential oils that can cause a pet to have a gastric upset if parts of the can-dle are eaten.

Bird owners need to be extra cautious about scented candles since birds have a very delicate respiratory tract and are

consequently very sensitive to all kinds of inhalants.

Another common hazard is stagnant water in Christmas tree stands. Any pets drinking from this water can potentially ingest a host of bacteria thriving in this semi-warm pool of water. Aspirin in the tree water can also present as a hazard to thirsty pets.

It comes as a surprise to some people to learn that severe Poinsettia toxicity is actually of overblown concern. General-ly, only a moderate gastrointestinal tract upset can occur, perhaps with a minor mouth irritation or eye irritation. Medical

attention is rarely necessary.On the flip side, ingested chocolate can

cause severe signs of toxicity to pets. The degree of toxicity depends on the kind and amount of chocolate consumed. Baking chocolate is the worst, followed by semi-sweet and dark chocolate, fur-ther followed by milk chocolate and then chocolate baked goods.

Be sure to contact your veterinarian as soon as you become aware of this event occurring in your pet.

◗ Dr. Leslie Ross is a veterinarian with Ved-der Mountain Veterinary Clinic.

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Jingle Time Christmas Special Ring in the festive season with this Christmas-themed program at the Chilliwack Library Dec. 17 from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Join library staff as they celebrate the holiday season. Everyone is welcome.

Genshiken Come and join more Japa-nese pop culture mayhem with Raymond at Chilliwack Library Dec. 18 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Due to the content of the media during the Japa-nese group, please be at least 13 to attend. If you are in doubt, please have your par-ent speak to Raymond about your attendance. For more information, email Raymond at [email protected].

Uke clubUkulele club meets the first and third Wednesday of each month (Dec. 18) from 7 to 9 p.m. at Decades. All levels welcome for an enjoy-able evening of singing and playing.

MS Self-Help Christmas PartyThe Chilliwack MS Self-Help Group Christmas Party will be at The Mandarin Garden Buffet Restaurant, 45225 Luckakuck Way, on Dec. 19 at 11:30 a.m. Please call Michele (604-824-1878) or Owen (604-795-5216) to confirm attendance (including care-givers or guests) by Dec. 17.

Walkthrough of BethlehemThe Genesis Church and Chilliwack Corn Maze have joined to present Experience the Journey, an original Christmas story walkthrough with King Herod, Mary, Joseph, the shepherds in the fields, the Wise Men and the angels pronouncing the birth of Jesus. The event will take place at the Chilliwack Corn Maze, 41905 Yale Road W., and runs from Dec. 19 to 20 from 7 to 9 p.m. and Dec. 21 from 6 to 8 p.m. Families stopping by are encouraged

to donate non-perishable foods as well as mittens and socks. Tickets are available online or you can contact [email protected].

How’s That Made Christmas Join Susan Barclay from Com-munity Services for a Crafty Christmas Extravaganza at Chilliwack Library Dec. 19 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Due to the level of skill and attention required for the craft class, registration is limited to youth in Grade 7 or higher.

Blue Christmas ServiceCarman United Church, 7258 Vedder Rd., will be hosting a Blue Christmas Service on Dec. 19 for people who have an emotionally hard time dealing with the Christmas season. The meditative ser-vice will run from 7 to 8 p.m.

Book and a Bite StorytimeKids, ages five to nine, are invited to an afternoon of exploring and creating in the kitchen with Dayle Thiessen as we learn about Christmas traditions around the world at Yarrow Library Dec. 21 from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Children will create a tasty treat as well as enjoy some festive stories.

G.W. Graham car rafflePurchase raffle tickets for family and friends this Christ-mas and help support G.W. Graham students in their only grad fundraiser for the year. Tickets are $10 each and give ticket holders a chance to win a 2013 Hon-da Civic. Other high-value prizes include an alarm and stereo system, $1,000 travel

voucher and $500 gas card.The car and students will be at Cottonwood Mall starting Dec. 28. Tickets are avail-able at G.W. Graham school, Cooper’s Foods, Ken’s Tire & Wheel, Voltage Sound and Security, Roblin Travel and Panago, Vedder locations.

English practiceA free English practice group for immigrants meets Tues-days at the Cheam Leisure Centre. Register at the Chil-liwack Library information desk, email [email protected], or call Marci at 604-792-0025 ext. 2434 option 1.

Vision mates neededVolunteer as a vision mate with the Canadian National Institute for the Blind and help someone blind or par-tially sighted in Chilliwack. Help with reading, going for walks, shopping and social visiting. Spend two hours a week making a positive difference. Flexible sched-ule. Criminal record check required. Visit www.cnib.ca/volunteer or call 604-431-2146.

Drivers neededThe Canadian Cancer Society Volunteer Driver program in Chilliwack is in need of more volunteer drivers to take patients to and from their treatment. Training and dispatch are provided. Time commitments are flexible. For more information, con-tact Christina Chenard at 1-888-222-2240 Ext. 338 or email [email protected].◗ Compiled by staff

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’Tis the season for night time light shows as evidenced by this incredible display at the corner of Upper Prairie Road and Chilliwack Central Road.

Community eventsTo include your event, contact Tyler Olsen at [email protected]. Put your event on our digital calendar by visiting www.chilliwacktimes.com.


and reputation has an impact: if the pipeline is seen to be dangerous then the properties along it will be devalued.”

Kinder Morgan filed its application for the pipeline twinning project to the National Energy Board (NEB) on Mon-day.

Kinder Morgan’s most recent pub-lic relations blitz included bragging to the Chilliwack Chamber of Commerce about the economic impact the pipe-line twinning project will have.

But CRED BC questions the real local benefit of the $5.4-billion project, which, beyond a large influx of spend-ing and temporary jobs during con-

struction, will leave about 50 new jobs in British Columbia.

McDowell said CRED BC is try-ing hard to have an open discussion about what has so far been a polariz-ing debate. There are some who are against the pipeline who think anyone speaking favourably about the twin-ning proposal is “the devil incarnate.”

Conversely, the company has a large and highly polished public rela-tions machine in operation to present the upside of the project while dis-missing opponents as anti-business.

“But on the other hand,” she said.

“I think there has been a really huge hunger for facts. . . . We are pro-busi-ness, we are not anti-business. We just want to make sure we have all the facts as you would for any business decision.”

McDowell said she has spoken with a realtor, who did not want her name used, who said she has been selling homes along the route of the Trans Mountain pipeline at a five per cent discount. The reality is that even if there is no increased danger, per-ception in real estate, is important.

“I was speaking with a real estate

economist who said that if you have a pipeline that runs under a proper-ty, as long as it hasn’t had a spill or a leak, it only impacts values when you know about it.”

For decades, many people had no idea there was an oil sands pipeline running through Chilliwack. With talk of twinning, perception has increased.

“I grew up in Chilliwack and I didn’t know that,” McDowell said.

Kinder Morgan has said the fact that no one knew the pipeline existed is precisely because of how safe it is.

“Yes and no,” McDowell said. “There’s a risk and maybe it will never have a spill or leak but the fact is that it does have spills and leaks. There was Merritt last summer. Folks in Burnaby will obviously say it leaks.

“Maybe there will never be an inci-dent but, at least for us, it is important to be cognizant of the risk.”

There have been 80 spills reported on the Trans Mountain pipeline over its 60-year lifetime.

In response to the CRED BC report, a Kinder Morgan spokesperson said: “Hundreds, if not thousands of people have chosen to buy or build near the pipeline.”

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City council had granted approval in prin-cipal for the Fraser Valley Expressin August, but on Tuesday electedofficials adopted a bylaw neededbefore the provincial governmentcan approve the plan.

“This is something our constitu-ents have been asking for for a verylong time,” Mayor Sharon Gaetzsaid.

“This has been a long time gettinghere,” Fraser Valley Regional District (FVRD)chief administrative officer Paul Gipps said.“And this is something we are very excitedabout at the FVRD.”

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“This is something our constitu-ents have been asking for for a verylong time,” Mayor Sharon Gaetzsaid.

“This has been a long time gettinghere,” Fraser Valley Regional District (FVRD)chief administrative officer Paul Gipps said.“And this is something we are very excitedabout at the FVRD.”

The FVRD passed a bylaw of its own toapprove the service at a meeting in Septem-ber.

Gipps was at council Tuesday alongside BC

Transit representative Johann Van Shchaik totalk about the new service, which won’t be inoperation until fall 2014 at the earliest.

The service envisaged will see buses run-ning every 60 to 90 minutes in peak periodsbetween Chilliwack and Abbotsford. Servicefrom there would continue on to the Car-volth Exchange in Langley with connectionsto Metro Vancouver.

Early estimates suggest 12,000 annualhours, which means six buses providingapproximately 137,000 annual rides.

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Lum made a motion to defer the matterto be looked at closer by the TransportationAdvisory Committee and so that a trafficstudy could be completed.

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