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Whether or not a former Greendale elementar y school teacher is a pedo-

phile who may one day act physically on what he saw in the thousands of pornographic images of children he shared was the subject of some discus-sion in Chilliwack Provincial Court last week.

The real focus, however, of the sec-ond day of a sentencing hearing for John Patrick Davy who was convicted of possession and distribution of child pornography centred around a psy-chological assessment to measure his risk to reoffend.

Davy was caught a year ago with more than 27,000 digital child porn images. He pleaded guilty on Feb. 19 to possession and distribution of child pornography.

Day one of his sentencing hearing was March 27, day two was April 23 and he was back in court for a contin-uation April 29.

Central to the second day of the hearing last Wednesday was cross- examination of Dr. Hendre Viljoen, a forensic psychologist, who produced a report for the court on Davy’s risk to reoffend.

Viljoen determined Davy is a low to moderate risk to reoffend. Davy’s law-yer Martin Finch suggested the risk should be assessed at low, but Viljoen said he included the expanded “mod-erate” risk because of the pure volume

Assessing Davy’s risk to reoff end

Th ree more charges for Neyrinck

One piece at a timeBY KEN GOUDSWAARD

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It was just one puzzle piece. But a puzzle isn’t really a puzzle unless you have all the pieces.

And, when you’re making an 8,000-piece puzzle, well, coming up one short just isn’t an option.

At least not for master puzzle builder Dorothea Young who spent the last year single-hand-ily building the 192 cm (75.5 inches) by 140 cm (53.5 inches) behemoth.

“Every so often you think a piece is lost and you get upset,” she said. “It would break your heart if you did it all and one piece is missing.”

So concerned she might lose

a piece, Young didn’t vacuum under the dining room table the puzzle sat atop for the entire year.

“No wool sweaters,” she said, when puzzling. “They pick up pieces on the elbow.”

Young spent three hours a day, on average, piecing things together. It was a labour of love for a woman who says she enjoys building the puzzles nobody else will do.

The puzzle, Cottage Stream by Sung Kim, was given to Young by her friend Judy Lasarge, who received it as a Christmas gift. Lasarge didn’t have room for the monster puzzle, but she knew Young was an enthusiast.

Undaunted by the size or the difficulty rating (“ultra extreme”

according to the website Serious Puzzles) Young went to the dol-lar store and purchased 20 cook-ie sheets. She started the job of building by separating the pieces into various categories, starting first with the border pieces.

Lasarge helped out by having a special board made that would sit on top of Young’s dining room table. It’s the same board to which the puzzle will be glued and eventually hung on a wall.

While some might be paralyzed by the thought of putting together so many pieces, for Young it was a form of relaxation.

“I’ve always done puzzles,” she said. “I’ve done 2,000-piece puz-zles, smaller ones, but I’ve never done an 8,000 piece. This will be the largest I do.”

Ken Goudswaard/TIMES

It took Dorothea Young one year to complete this massive 8,000-piece puzzle.

{ See DAVY, page A4 }


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Failed school board candidate Corey Neyrinck was visibly upset in Chilliwack Provincial Court on

Tuesday when his scheduled bail hear-ing was postponed two more weeks.

Neyrinck, who also served as vice-president of the district parents’ advisory council (DPAC), faces six sex-related charges, including sexual assault, sexual interference of a person

under 16, making or publishing child pornography and possession of child pornography.

He was in court Tuesday for a bail hearing as he faces three more charges for violating his bail conditions.

When discussion began about post-poning the hearing until a later date, Neyrinck became agitated and repeat-edly stated that he wanted it to happen immediately.

Neyrinck came to Chilliwack in 2007 for a job at Stream. He was active on the McCammon elementary PAC and spent three years as chair.

The 27-year-old was working as a shift manager at Five Guys Burger and Fries, and has no prior criminal record.

Neyrinck put his name forward to run in the school district 33 byelection won last November by Dan Coulter.

He received just 54 votes, the second fewest of the six candidates. Neyrinck’s name also came up at city council on April 2 as he was subject to a $500 pen-alty for late filing of his election cam-paign financial disclosure statement.◗ Neyrinck’s next court appearance is scheduled for May 13.

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CHILLIWACK TIMES Thursday, May 01, 2014 A3

upfront THE BIG STATNumber of people who

contracted measles during a four-week period in 2014. 400

Chilliwack RCMP are looking for someone who tried to dig up a grave site last week.

On April 20, family members attend-ed a cemetery on Chilliwack Mountain Road to find the grave site of a deceased fami-ly member had been partially dug up.

The coffin, which had been there for 20 years, was not entered. Several shovels were left at the scene.

“This is a disturbing occurrence,” said Chilliwack RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Len vanNieuwenhuizen. “ We are

taking this very seriously. The ceme-tery is located in a rural and remotearea so we are asking the assistance ofthe general public in solving this.”

It is believed that jewelryand other family heirloomsburied with the deceasedmay have been the targetof thieves. The coffin wascemented closed and had notbeen breached in this inci-dent.

Police believe the gravemay have been dug up several daysprior to April 20 of April.

◗ Anyone with knowledge of thisis asked to contact the ChilliwackRCMP at 604-792-4611 or, to remainanonymous, Crime Stoppers at1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).


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A Chilliwack man convicted in a brutal hammer attack that left the victim with a frac-tured skull was sentenced to

three-and-a-half-years in prison last week.

Jerry Lee Elliott was ordered to give a DNA sample, handed a lifetime fire-arms prohibition in addition to the 1,304-day jail term ordered by Judge Russell MacKay.

Elliott was convicted a year ago of aggravated assault and uttering threats in the Chilliwack River Road beating of Douglas Hiatt.

In handing down his decision in April 2013, MacKay called the attack “vicious, senseless and cowardly.”

At trial, MacKay had heard that Hiatt stopped his vehicle on Chilli-wack River Road on Oct. 29, 2010, only to be set upon by two men.

He identified one of those men as Elliott, whom he said had threatened him at his home a week prior.

Hiatt was dragged from his vehicle and beaten with what may have been a hammer. He was left with numerous

abrasions and contusions, along with skull fractures. The injuries caused ongoing seizures and headaches.

Elliott and Kelly Francis Walker were charged with aggravated assault. Both denied the charges, and before Elliott’s conviction, MacKay acquit-ted Walker, saying he was left with a reasonable doubt that the man was involved in the attack.

There was little physical evidence that tied Elliott to the attack. Instead, the case came down to whose testi-

mony MacKay believed.MacKay said he found Elliott’s cred-

ibility wanting and that his testimony gave him little reason to doubt Hiatt’s version of the attack or his identifica-tion of Elliott as his attacker.

Elliott had testified that he felt no animosity towards his alleged victim, which MacKay said “was a startling statement given the way he glared at Mr. Hiatt throughout Mr. Hiatt’s testi-mony.”

MacKay also noted the contradic-

tion between Elliott’s testimony that he wanted to keep his children away from drugs and drug users and the fact that he had many acquaintances who used narcotics.

Elliott had also said he was with his father in Hope at the time of the attack. MacKay, noting that there was no corroborating evidence, said of the purported alibi: “I reject it and conclude it was a lie told in hopes of distancing himself from the incident.”

On the other hand, Elliott found “Mr. Hiatt’s account to have a ring of truth to it” and said that his testi-mony “was clear about the central details of the attack.”

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The Skway Village Cemetery on Chil-liwack Mountain Road was the site of an attempted grave robbing recently.

Prison time for ‘cowardly’ hammer attackVictim was dragged from his vehicle then repeatedly struck with a hammer leaving him with skull fractures

The Fraser Valley measles scare is officially over.

More than 400 people contract-ed the disease over four weeks, after Fraser Health confirmed two cases of measles in a Chilliwack school at the beginning of March.

While new cases of infection may crop up, Fraser Health officials state the outbreak is in its final stages and will soon peter out.

“The size of, and speed at which,

this outbreak spread resulted in more cases of measles than the province has seen in the past 15 years, and was the largest outbreak in almost 30 years,” stated Dr. Paul Van Buynder, chief medical health officer for Fraser Health.

This particular outbreak stretched from BCIT to Agassiz to south of the border, with cases appearing in many Fraser Valley cities.

Fraser Health encouraged immu-nization as the best defence against measles throughout the outbreak.

When 85 to 95 per cent of a commu-nity are resistant to a disease, they

stated, those immune to the disease act as a protective wall around those susceptible to the disease in what is called community or herd immuni-ty.

Fraser Valley immunization rates are typically fairly low, which has led to several outbreaks of measles in the last few years.◗ For more information on these tools and other immunization tips visit fraserhealth.ca/immunize.

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of images found and the fact that once arrested and released, Davy was found breaching his bail conditions in Kelowna.

Despite having been arrested, charged and released under strict conditions, Davy was found on Sept. 12, 2013 with a com-puter that had more than 1,000 child porn images, 321 photos of naked or partly naked children that did not meet the defi-nition of child porn, and 668 “child-rele-vant” images.

Viljoen also pointed to the frequency with which Davy viewed the images.

“The recent files viewed [before his May arrest] reflect a very high level of use and does indicate behaviour Mr. Davy engages in frequently,” Viljoen said in his April 23 testimony via video from Vancouver.

Davy appeared to be in physical pain or was suffering anxiety of some kind in court as he was in near-constant motion, head mostly in his hands, often wincing, stretching and twisting in his seat. This may have been partly due to the fact that at least one family member attended the hearing.

When the 44-year-old was first arrested for possession of child pornography in May 2013 he was found head and shoul-ders into an attic access in his bedroom trying to hide an external hard drive.

Also seized were a laptop, computer tower and a bag with a towel and girl’s bikini inside.

“The collection contains many types of child pornography, including victims as young as two to three years old,” stated RCMP computer forensic investigator Sgt. Lorena Rostie in a report presented at the first day of Davy’s sentencing hearing on March 27.

Finch spent a good deal of time at the April 23 hearing differentiating between

the different types and degrees of child porn users. Finch emphasized the differ-entiation between the type of sex offend-er who acts out urges on a pre-pubescent child and those, like Davy he argued, who simply views the images and has no real world intention or desire.

“A person can have an attraction to sexual images of children which can be viewed in the safety of a secret world and not, on the other hand, have an actual physical attraction or arousal to an actual person in the flesh,” Finch suggested to the psychologist.

“That would certainly be possible,” Vil-joen responded.

Up to the time of his arrest, Davy had sig-nificant involvement with children through teaching and volunteer work, both in Can-ada and abroad, Crown counsel Andrea Ormiston told the court in March, adding he had travelled extensively in countries including Australia, New Zealand, the Dominican Republic, Burma, Singapore, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia.

Day three of the sentencing hearing was scheduled for Tuesday of this week, but a second psychologist’s report ordered by the defence was not ready.

Davy reacted with fervent nodding when his lawyer suggested to Judge Roger Cutler that he wanted to get the sentenc-ing over with so he could access rehabili-tation in custody.

Crown will ask for a sentence of two years in custody followed by three years of probation.

Davy’s hearing is expected to last at least one more day and as of press time was tentatively scheduled for the end of May.

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BY KEN GOUDSWAARD

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The Coast Hotel was seeing red last Friday . . . and they were happy for the business.

With their nine-year run of hold-ing luncheons at an end with the closing of the iconic Minter Gar-dens, Chilliwack’s red hat ladies have found a new home at the Coast.

A total of 62 members attended the 16th birthday of the Red Hat Society, which has members in 13 countries around the world. Here in Chilliwack, there are 14 chapters with 300 members in total.

Red hatters have a pretty simple philosophy when it comes to their

“purely social club.”“Freedom, fun and friendship,”

explained Evelyn Gramolini, chair of the Upper Fraser Valley council of Red Hats.

And while red is the predominant colour when the group meets, you’ll also see “pinkies” (those under 50) and those wearing purple to signify it is their birthday month.

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Red Hat Society members gathered for tea at the Coast Hotel last Friday.

Red hatters just want to have fun


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This is the second of two columns addressing what I see as the greatest threat to the B.C. environment in our lifetime.

The Alberta oil industry’s North-ern Gateway plan is to export bitumen to Asia via tankers from

the B.C. coast. Under no circumstanc-es should we allow that to happen. A bitumen spill at sea could destroy our coastline, together with the fish and wildlife that depend on it, for hun-dreds of years.

My first column discussed the light oil spill by the Exxon Valdez and the terrible toll it took on the Alaskan hab-itat and fishery. It also gave proof that a bitumen spill would be far worse. A bitumen spill would be almost completely unrecoverable because it would sink and stay on the bottom of our seabed.

The solution that is best for Canada is to build a refinery in Kitimat. I am promoting and backing this solution. It will convert the bitumen to very light fuels that would float and evaporate if

ever spilled. There are other enormous benefits:

There will be a major reduction in greenhouse gases. We will use new cutting-edge Canadian technology in our refinery. It will be so clean that in combination with oilsands extraction there will be less CO2 than in the huge conventional oilfields and refineries of Iraq and Nigeria. In other words, the Kitimat refinery will neutralize the extra greenhouse gases generated in Canada’s oilsands. This refinery will be built in Asia if not in Kitimat, and if so it will emit double the CO2 of our new design. This is the reason that Andrew Weaver of the BC Green Party is in favour of a Canadian refinery.

An Asian refinery will also generate 100 train cars a day of very dirty coke (much fouler than B.C. coal) which

will be subsequently burnt in the atmosphere to create power. The Kiti-mat refinery will not result in the pro-duction of any coke. As we all live on one planet, it is far better for the global environment to build this refinery in Canada.

Construction of the refinery will create 6,000 jobs in B.C. for five years. Operations at the refinery will result in more permanent jobs than any project has ever created in B.C. with approx-imately 3,000 direct jobs. These will be highly paid permanent jobs. These jobs will be available for the life of the refinery which should be in excess of 50 years. In addition, there will be thousands of other jobs created in spinoff local petrochemical companies and in indirect employment through-out the province.

The Canadian and provincial gov-ernments, local regional districts and municipalities, and many First Nations, will share in billions of new tax dollars each year.

Unfortunately, our Canadian oil companies are not interested in

building a new major refinery. They are focused on extraction which is more profitable than refining. One of them challenged me to spearhead the refinery myself, so I am doing that. We have a solid business plan and as a consequence Chinese banks and other institutions are prepared to lend us most of the funds required to build the greenest and most efficient refinery in the world. We are currently moving ahead with engineering design and environmental work.

We will also build a safe pipeline from Alberta to the refinery, with the active participation of First Nations. Modern pipelines can be built and operated safely. Leak data is avail-able for everyone to see on Canadian and U.S. government websites and it proves recently constructed pipelines are not leaking. Furthermore some of the best pipelining companies in the world are based in Canada.

In addition we will build a fleet of new tankers, powered by LNG rather

Refinery in Kitimat is the answer

OUR VIEW

Politics in British Columbia is a divisive game.If the BC Liberals say “black” the NDP will say “white.” If

the NDP say “up” the BC Liberals will say “down.”And just as you can be sure MLAs in the two main par-

ties in Victoria will say the opposite of what the others say in just about every instance, you can also be sure they will vote along party lines in just about every instance.

So it’s refreshing to see, if in a bit of an odd example, one of our local MLAs breaking ranks with the party and vot-ing against a government bill.

Chilliwack-Hope MLA Laurie Throness stood up in the Legislature this week to speak against the Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act, a bill that passed by a vote of 70 to four. Throness said he agrees with 157 out of 158 sec-tions in the act. The one he doesn’t like is the amendment to the Vital Statistics Act to allow gender reassignment by way of a declaration.

He claimed his opposition wasn’t based on religion but on biology.

“A legislature does not have the capacity to change a man into a woman or a woman into a man,” he said, in part.

Agree or disagree with Throness on this one. But at least we see here that members of political parties aren’t robots and they can speak their mind.

We can only hope to see more diversity of opinion expressed in the voting record of the governing BC Liberals.

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than Bunker C oil, to transport the refined products to Asia. This way we know the tankers will be state-of-the-art and as safe as possible. The fleet will be owned by a company based in B.C. so it cannot shirk its legal lia-bility if there ever is a spill at sea.

Let me be up front about my biases. I am for creating thousands

of good permanent jobs in B.C. I am for creating billions of new tax dol-lars for government coffers. I am for reducing the planet’s greenhouse gas emissions. I am for building an oil pipeline that will never leak. I am for building a modern tanker fleet that carries only refined fuels

that float and evaporate if spilled. I am against shipping bitumen in tankers.

If you agree that we should not put bitumen in tankers please contact your local MP and say so. The Cana-dian government makes a decision on Northern Gateway next month.

Editor:When I was appointed Parlia-

mentary Secretary to the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development last September, I received a number of kind notes and letters congratulating me on my appointment. One note that I won’t soon forget said “Aboriginal Affairs is a tough portfolio, but your Dad always used to say ‘focus on the possible.’ Good luck!”

It was, as it often is from that source, very good advice.

When Canadians think of the relationship between the federal government and aboriginal peoples in Canada, it’s easy to focus on the challenges. But our government has made significant efforts over the last number of years to improve that relationship, starting with the Prime Minister’s historic apology on residential schools in 2008. Recently we’ve taken another significant step toward reconciliation.

By focusing on the possible, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn Atleo have achieved an historic milestone, and an unprecedented opportunity to improve the health and well-being of current and future generations of First Nations children.

In February, I was honoured to attend the ceremony on the Blood Reserve in Alberta announcing that Canada and the Assembly of First Nations had agreed on a path for-ward to improve First Nations edu-cation on reserve. I was also in the House of Commons on April 10 to witness the introduction of the First Nations Control of First Nations Education Act.

First and foremost, this bill would ensure that control rests with First Nations for the administration of their own education system on reserve. With that control comes accountability and responsibility- that statutory funds will go directly to schools and students, that teach-ers will be certified to provincial standards and that students will be able to graduate with a recognized diploma. The bill will also remove those sections of the Indian Act that allowed for the creation of residen-tial schools, once and for all.

Right now, First Nations students being educated on reserve across the country are graduating at a rate of only 38 per cent, around 50 per centage points lower than the national average. In remote and northern regions, the rate is even lower. Statistics show that students without a recognized high school

diploma will earn less, will have fewer job prospects and will have greater difficulty acquiring the skills necessary to be employable in today’s job market.

There are great examples of First Nations education systems having great success—the Mi’kmaq in Nova Scotia are graduating over 85 per cent of their students, which is a better rate that the rest of the prov-ince—but this sort of success needs to become the norm as opposed to the exception.

As the fastest growing population in Canada, First Nations youth have opportunities like never before to be full partners in Canada’s econ-omy. When outcomes for First Nations kids are improved, their communities benefit, indeed so does their country.

I am hopeful that Canadians will be able look back on that cer-emony on the Blood Reserve and the introduction of the bill in the House of Commons as a turning point for First Nations education, Canada-First Nations relations and opportunity for First Nations children. The possibilities are very promising, and that’s truly worth focusing on.

Mark Strahl, MP Chilliwack—Fraser Canyon

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BY REV. JOHN SOVEREIGN St. Thomas Anglican Church

You remember the little girl draw-ing a picture? Her Dad said to her, “So what are you drawing, Sally,”

and she said, “Jesus.” Dad said, “No one knows what Jesus looks like,” and Sally said, “They will when I get finished.”

The Easter story is like that. Like a piece of art, the gospels describe the amazing events of Holy Week and Eas-ter in story form. We are like children around a campfire, hearing our parents tell stories about the “good old days.” We take the art of our family lore, and combine it with our own experience. Our minds imagine scenes and assem-ble meaning.

To say this does not diminish the miracle of Easter. Not only did Jesus rise physically from the dead, but by becoming a human being, made just like us in every way, Jesus was able to

rescue us, to purchase us, to become a sin offering for us, to be our sacrificial lamb, to ransom us, to exercise God’s mercy, to show God’s love, and to demonstrate God’s total commitment to us. Jesus destroyed death’s right to hold us.

Why Jesus had to do all this, and how it works is a mystery God understands and we yearn to uncover. It was very big, this miracle, and all attempts to explain it fall short. The fact remains, however : Jesus was betrayed and beaten, cruci-fied on a Roman cross during the time of Pilate. Jesus was pronounced dead by Roman fact. Lifeless, cold, in rigour, Jesus’ body was hastily buried in a new rock tomb. He lay in the grave, dead, all through Holy Saturday. His disciples were in shock and grief. On Easter Sun-

day, sometime during the night or early morning, he rose alive from the dead and came forth in the early morning light.

We read this story in detail and can-not help but be moved by its strident energy, compelling clarity, abject bru-tality. The story is real. But we add in our own interpretation, so that the more swarthy Jesus of Nazareth is replaced by the tall blond Jesus of Scandinavia. Just look at all the depictions of Jesus found in religious art. We even impose on Jesus our own experience of pain, hav-ing no other gage by which to under-stand crucifixion.

In Acts, Peter tells this story in a dif-ferent way, which is surprising. He does not insert the emotional markers that are found in the Gospels, he doesn’t

invite his hearers to enter into the events and feelings of Holy Week and Easter. His story is straight and short. Jesus was executed, and quite dead. Then he returned to his dead body on the third day and reappeared to his friends and disciples. By eating with them, touching them, and spending time with them, his disciples and Peter could testify truthfully and forcefully to the resurrection of Jesus.

There is a clear caveat. Seeing Jesus risen from the dead was not for the general public, but for a few trusted disciples. Paul says 500 disciples were gathered together at one time, and Jesus joined them. That is because Jesus is Lord of his own appearances.

His second caveat is that salvation is found by those who believe in Jesus. I

really struggled with this requirement until I realized that to believe in Jesus is to pursue him. It is like a bus ticket—it won’t get you anywhere unless you use it. So you must cash your belief before you can reach out to know Jesus.

The little girl had drawn a picture of Jesus for all the world. “They’ll know what he is like when I’m done,” she said.

We too must draw a picture of Jesus for the world to see. A resurrected, real Jesus, not an ideology, or a superhero, or a victim. Not even just a nice guy or someone who said some pithy things. We must draw our best picture of Jesus, using what we have at hand : our stories of Jesus and me, our willingness to let Jesus act out his wonderful work in the world through us, our faithfulness in worship and devotion, in learning and wisdom, and our commitment to lift Jesus higher in every aspect of our lives.◗ Rev. John Sovereign is the Rector at St. Thomas Anglican Church.

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One of B.C.’s top 10 most pro-lific car thieves has been arrested in Chilliwack . . .

again.Shaun Darryl Bolko remains in

custody after he was arrested April 26 in possession of a stolen Ford F350 pickup, which was report-ed missing from the 9000 block of Birch Street the day before.

The 32-year-old was caught at the intersection of Yale Road and Menzies Street with the vehicle by members of the Chilliwack RCMP Crime Reduction Unit.

Bolko, a designated prolific offender, was charged with posses-sion of stolen property and breach of probation.

Mounties report this is the sec-

ond time in less than a month that Bolko has been arrested while in possession of a stolen vehicle. On March 30, he was arrested by Abbotsford Police near a stolen Ford F250, for an outstanding war-rant and breach of probation.

On March 28, the Integrated Municipal Provincial Auto Crime Team (IMPACT) released the list of British Columbia’s top 10 auto crime offenders. Bolko was on this list.

The arrest of Bolko coincides with Auto Crime Month in B.C.,

which was in April.“On auto crime investigations

we are co-ordinating our efforts with specialized integrated polic-ing units and our Lower Mainland policing partner agencies,” said Cpl. Brock Rayworth of the Chil-liwack RCMP property crime sec-tion. “A small percentage of people commit the vast majority of the property crime in the Upper Fraser Valley. If they choose to continue this lifestyle they will be targeted and end up in jail.”

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Wayne Dehnke Memorial The inaugural Wayne Dehnke Memorial golf tournament tees off at the Kinkora Golf Course May 3. The tournament, in honour of former CFB Chilliwack base administration officer Wayne Dehnke, will raise funds for a water project he helped to start near his retirement home in Mexico. Cost for the Texas scramble tournament is $50 and includes lunch. Check in is at 8 a.m. Shotgun start at 8:30 a.m. Spaces are limited. To sign up a team call Kinkora Golf Course at 604-858-8717 or email Jordie at [email protected].

Volunteers neededLocal organizers are looking for volunteers to help with two provincial golf cham-pionships in Chilliwack in August. About 80 of B.C.’s best U15 boys and girls golf-ers will converge on Mead-owlands Golf Club Aug. 20 to 22 to compete in the B.C. Golf Bantam Championship. The following week (Aug. 25 to 28) a field of 120 U17 male and female standouts will compete at Royalwood Golf & RV Resort in the B.C. Golf Juvenile Championship. Volunteers are needed to help in all areas of these competitions. For more infor-mation or to volunteer, email [email protected], call Ray at 604 824 4604 or sign up at either venue.

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BY DESSA BAYROCK

Special to the Times

What do jazz musicians, belly dancers, paramed-ics and Olympic ath-letes have in common?

If you ask Roger Friesen, the answer is the pressure of perfor-mance.

Friesen is a staple figure in the ath-letics department at the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) where he teaches courses in sport psychology and counsels student athletes to mentally train for their sports.

“There’s a parallel between what happens in the psychological realm and in the physical realm,” Friesen explains. Athletes who want to be physically successful must also train to be mentally and emotionally suc-cessful.

This sort of training applies to anyone who puts on a performance. Friesen has been called upon to help train not just athletes, but chiroprac-tors, doctors, dancers and musicians. Sport psychology isn’t just for sports any more; this sort of counselling has broadened its horizons into the wider world of performance psychology.

“Anyone who’s in performance mode has to come to grips with stress and pressure,” Friesen says. “They have to become more emotionally fit.”

It comes down to recognizing emotional and psychological train-ing have just as important a role

as physical and technical training. Friesen’s job largely boils down into helping athletes and other perform-ers develop and increase their mental toughness—a sort of psychological endurance.

“Mental toughness is our ability to stay focused to maintain appropriate attention, to deal with distractions, to deal with adversity—all from a psy-chological and emotional realm,” he explains. “The more mentally tough we are, the greater the [stress] we are able to manage.”

This spring, for instance, Friesen has been helping train a pair of Van-couver athletes who have entered a competition to row across the pacific ocean—from California to Hawaii.

“Accumulated fatigue is a big issue,” he says. “We talk about strategies to manage energies. We talk about strat-egies to remain mentally tough, even if emotionally fatigued.”

This sort of challenge is an extreme version of the same stresses any ath-lete feels when preparing for compe-tition. Pressure, after all, is inherent in every performance.

With 27 years in field experience, Friesen has developed and tried and true method of discussion and mental exercises to prepare athletes and performers for the psychological or emotional obstacles they might encounter on the field, the court, or the stage. Through his work at UFV, he meets with the varsity teams both

as a group and one-on-one on a weekly basis.

“Every one of those athletes will approach situations slightly different-ly,” he says. “The context is different, but the principles are the same.”

With recent public interest on lifting the lid of mental illness, more athletes and performers are cogni-zant of mental and emotional strain than ever before.

“The whole attitude of sport psy-chology has changed tremendously. It has become more and more well-known and more and more accept-ed,” Friesen concludes. “People are far more accepting of sport or perfor-mance psychology than they were in early days.”

Mental toughness 101:Preparing for the pressure of performace

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Performance psychologist Roger Friesen (left) mentally trains athletes like Olympic white water kayaker David Ford (right). Friesen focuses on increasing mental toughness not only in athletes, but in performers of all kinds.

Rated PG Rollergirls from Prince George were in town to face NWO’s Wolfpack for their debut home bout season opener

Malice in Derbyland at the Chilliwack Landing Sports Centre on April 26.

The bout was a low-scoring, defensive match where every point had to be fought for, hits were hard and walls were strong in the pack for both NWO and Rated PG. The official final score was 158 to 102 for NWO Wolfpack.

The next NWO bout is on May 10 at the new Hope Ice Arena and Community Centre at 999 6th Ave. in Hope where the Wolfpack is taking on the Okanagan Shuswap Roller Derby Association (OSRDA) All Stars. Doors open at 5 p.m. and first whistle is at 6 p.m.

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Dan Oostenbrink wants to talk to you about vegetables.

He wants to convert you to his food revolution.

“If I can convince one person at a time then I’ll have succeeded,” he tells me during a tour this week of The Local Harvest in Chilliwack.

“Even if it’s just one person a day that is going to benefit then we’ll have succeeded. They’ll tell their friends and they’ll tell their friends and it won’t be long until everybody in our city is thinking of it. Who knows, we might just be the first city worldwide that is completely food sustainable, food secure. I don’t know, I would love to see it.”

Oostenbrink and his wife Helen run The Local Harvest, a 30-acre farm and market at the corner of Lickman and Yale Road West roads.

And the Oostenbrinks don’t only want people to come to their busi-ness, they want the entire community to get turned on to food grown right here in Chilliwack, harvested fresh each day.

The Local Harvest opened late last summer with some limited vegetable production, and again this April 14 officially for the 2014 season. With an emphasis on all things seasonal, sell-ing and eating what is fresh when it is fresh, they have some hurdles to over-come when it comes to acceptance.

The Oostenbrinks may have a fam-ily background in growing—Dan says his grandfather was a vegetable farm-er—but the move to the dirt is a bit of

an unusual one. Dan was a teacher for many years and, most recently, prin-cipal of Mt. Cheam Christian school.

He likes to say that we live in a food desert in Chilliwack. It sounds like an odd comment given that the Fraser Valley is one of the most productive growing regions on the planet.

But how much food do Chilliwack residents buy that actually comes from Chilliwack?

“If there would be any kind of nat-ural disaster or economic devastation like oil prices double or triple and we are not able to bring food in, what are we going to do then?” he asks. “Then we will be looking for farms to start up.”

Chilliwack should be feeding itself. But that’s just the start. You want to hear ambition? Oostenbrink esti-mates that at least 50 people can be fed on a whole food, plant-based, mostly vegetarian diet on one acre of Chilliwack land. With about 40,000 acres of farmland in Chilliwack the math is simple. He figures could feed two million people from Chilliwack farms.

“Once we get good at vegetable production and animal production, Chilliwack could potentially feed three million or four million, maybe even all of B.C.”

Converted yet?Oostenbrink is a businessman

sitting on 30 acres of expensive farm-land paying, for now, 10 full-time

employees “an above average wage” to hand-weed and till the soil to grow garlic, carrots, onions and more. He’s doing something that no one else in Chilliwack is doing and he says he has no model anywhere else in B.C. that he is copying.

Oostenbrink is relying on a cultur-al change that shifts our food logic away from processed crap, away from vegetables that are shipped from Cal-ifornia and Mexico, to one where we simply grow food in of the most fertile places on the planet.

He says he has no model to copy, but if what he’s doing works, he wants others to copy him. To think other-wise, to oppose “local” competition, would be hypocritical.

“My idea of a food revolution is we have farm markets sprouting up every 10 to 15 kilometres of each other, like McDonalds does except we’ll do it with healthy food, good food, food that will benefit everyone.”

The Oostenbrinks are doing things aligned with organic growing princi-ples, but they are not certified. And they have a good reason.

“I believe there needs to be much more connection between the farmer and the consumer and there needs to be a relationship of trust between the two and if people question how we grow then they ought to come and visit our farm and that will be evi-dence enough.”

They are focused on a plant-based

diet, but they do have chickens for eggs and they may one day get ducks and/or geese which will help by eat-ing weeds and slugs around berry bushes, serve as an agritourism draw for the kids, and end up as meat at the end of the season.

Speaking to the agritourism angle, Oostenbrink has his “barrel train” for the kids as well as a alpacas and a donkey to visit with.

Sure, these things are partly to add some financial sustainability but Oostenbrink says it’s more about get-ting kids interested in agriculture.

“If we are going to change the way we think about food in this city and this country it needs to start with the young people.”

While the Oostenbrinks and I talk about the future of food and farming in Chilliwack, local mother Tai Weath-erhead walks over to the field with her six-year-old daughter Leah and her two-year-old son Evan.

“I love this place,” she says to Dan. “And I love your Facebook posts.”

But she didn’t come for an auto-graph, she came to ask where the alpacas were so little Leah could see them.

In rural Chilliwack, this was—on a Monday no less—a suburban (Prom-ontory) family reconnecting with the farm as a place to access local, fresh produce and see some animals.

One convert at a time, and this one came to him.

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Dan and Helen Oostenbrink of The Local Harvest Market want to change the food landscape of Chilliwack.

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by trees. Homeowners with especially large trees on their property should consider hand-watering the grass beneath such trees to ensure these areas receive adequate water.◗ Lean on mulch. Home-owners tend to fear

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The new efficiency standards for light bulbs were implemented to help Canadians save money and reduce green-house gases. Old-style incandescentbulbs lose about 90 per cent of their energy as heat and only last about 1,000 hours. CFLs use energy more efficiently and can last 10,000 hours while LEDs last up to 25,000 hours.

Here are some tips from Health Canada on using CFL bulbs safely:◗ Always handle them carefully.◗ If you have skin sen-sitivities to UV, or an autoimmune disease that makes you sensitive to UV, buy low UV CFL bulbs and try to place the bulbs in fixtures where you can be 30 centime-tres or more away from them.

The presence of mer-cury in a CFL does not pose a risk to your health, unless the bulb is broken. If you do break a CFL:◗ Ensure that people and pets move to another room during the clean-up process.◗ Ventilate the room for at least 15 minutes prior to starting clean-up by opening windows and doors to the outdoors. This will ensure that mer-cury vapour levels are reduced before you start cleaning.◗ Do not use a vacuum to clean up the initial breakage as it will spread the mercury vapour and

dust throughout the area and may contaminate the vacuum.◗ Wear disposable gloves, if available, to avoid direct contact with mer-cury and to prevent cuts.◗ Scoop or sweep up the broken pieces and debris with two pieces of stiff paper or cardboard. Do not use a broom. Use sticky tape, such as duct tape or masking tape, to pick up any remaining fine glass or powder.◗ Wipe the area with a damp paper towel, cloth or disposable wet wipe to remove any residual particles.◗ Place the broken glass and clean-up materials in a glass container with a tight-fitting lid to further minimize the release of mercury vapour.◗ Check with your local municipality for CFL dis-posal information.

Canadians interact with chemicals in their everyday lives, often without even knowing or thinking about it. While chemical substances provide benefits, they may also have harmful effects on human health and the environment. Understanding the risks and benefits of common household items goes a long way towards keep-ing you and your family healthy.

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Do the “scissors” when you rake. Stand with one leg forward and one leg back when you rake. Switch legs and hands every few minutes.

Kneel to plant and weed.

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ommended. Use kneepads or a kneeling mat (with handles) to minimize the amount of bend-

ing required, and to make kneel-ing more comfortable. Keep your back straight.

Change positions frequent-ly. Make a point of changing position every 10 to 15 minutes. Move from kneeling to standing, from planting to digging.

Pace yourself. A minimum of three brief breaks each hour is recommended. Take a few moments to move around, stretch your muscles, have a drink or simply sit and relax. Spread the work over several days - you will still achieve the same great results. (NC)

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BY DESSA BAYROCK


It starts with an invitation to wine-lovers and ends with top-of-the-line stained glass equipment.

With a little jazz, some appetizers, a silent auction and a whole lot of wine, the

Chilliwack Cultural Centre uncorks their first-ever Art of Wine Festival on Saturday, May 10.

Proceeds from ticket sales and the auction will go towards new supplies and equipment for their arts and crafts programs. This spring they hope to raise funds to purchase equip-ment for paper arts and stained glass courses, as well as

cameras, printers, laptops and software for photography courses.

Chilliwack Cultural Cen-tre’s development officer Pat Clark says hosting a spring wine festival seemed like a natural choice after they huge support they received for a similar craft beer festival last fall.

“We know there’s a lot of folks in our town

that like and appre-

ciate wine, so it’s a good opportunity to support home-grown wine,” she says. “It seemed like it was a good way for wine lovers to have some fun and for us to have a benefit at the same time.”

The festival brings together more than 25 wineries into one building, with just under 70 kinds of wines on offer. The closest hails from Chaberton Estate in Langley, with the farthest one coming in from Fort Baron in Lillooet.

“We’re happy with the way this is shaping up, and the range of small to large wineries that are represented here,” Clark says, noting the selection spans from brand-new whites and “patio wines” to award-winning reds.

This cornucopia of wine pairs with a variety of hors d’oeuvres from Bravo Restau-rant, Society Gathering House, and Frankie’s Italian Kitchen—and, of course, cheese.

“We’re working on some little cards that will actual-ly prompt people to think about wine and food pair-ings as they see them,” Clark explains. “We’ve had a super response from both business and private donors, and that’s a real blessing in our community.”

After tasting the wines, festival-goers will have a chance to take a bottle or two home with them. The silent auction table is full of wine in a variety of groupings, so people can look at wines in a particular price point or from a particular winery.

“People are there to appreci-ate wine—the idea is that peo-ple can go home and enjoy the festival all over again,” Clark

says with a smile. And it wouldn’t be the

Art of Wine festival without a healthy dose of local art. The festival will span from

the Cultural Centre’s beautiful long lobby to

the open gallery, where the exhibit show-cases art from Chil-liwack stu-dents. More art hangs in the lobby itself, and a jazz trio adds a final touch.

And, as Clark notes,

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glass. “As I’m sure the

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◗ Tickets are $45 and are available at The Centre’s box office for patrons aged 19 and over.

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What do a stack of ceramic cookies, a penciled cross-sec-tion of a ginger root,

and a multicoloured print of skele-tons have in common?

They’re all on display this month as part of Art 33 at the Chilliwack Cultural Centre gallery—a showcase of Chilliwack high school student art that ranges from photography to print-making to sculpture to plain old pen and ink.

And that doesn’t even begin to cover it.

Judy Hurley is the president of Chilliwack’s Visual Artists Associa-tion, which hosts the show in their gallery every year.

“You never know what you’re going to get,” she says with a smile. “Each instructor gives their own spin, and then every student is indi-vidual too, so it makes for a really lively, different show every year.”

This is the fourth year they’ve held the show in the Cultural Centre gal-lery—a tall, white space filled with natural light.

“Most students haven’t been to this art gallery before, so when we tell them they don’t necessarily understand what it means until they get here,” says Sandra Wiens, an art teacher at Sardis Secondary. “When they see it, I think it’s quite exciting, because it’s such a beautiful gallery space with such beautiful white walls.”

Wiens says the work of almost a hundred students will be featured in the gallery by the time the exhibit opens.

For now, two days before the gal-lery opens to the public, they’re still in a flurry of set-up. One of her stu-dents unpacks ceramics from boxes while Wiens shores up the corners of a metal painting—an excellent

example, she says, of what the show is all about.

“I like the projects where students really leave the track that we’ve set out for them and end up somewhere completely different,” she says, gently tapping the sheet of metal in her hands. The sides are bent back to give it a traditional canvas shape, and screwed into place. One side shows a cartoonish image of a boy playing with a toy airplane while a city burns in the background.

“This is one of our senior students, who wanted to experiment with a variety of media—different textures and things. So he got ahold of a buddy who works in the metal shop and they bent the metal for him,” she explains. “Most of the stu-dents are painting on canvas, and he’s saying , ‘Can I paint on metal?’”

Other works were chosen for the show after students turned mistakes into some-thing that worked. Wiens points to a black-and-white print of a silhouett-ed girl with a bird on her shoulder.

“The student made a million ink copies of that, he was happy with this one, and right at the last moment a blob of ink happened,” she explains. “He was so frustrated . . . and I said, ‘Well, why don’t you incorporate it?’ So that’s where the birds came from—and I think that piece is stronger with the birds.”

Sardis secondary student Katelyn

Wallace has a couple of pieces in the show. The multicoloured set of skeletons is hers, as is a bright yellow image of a girl falling through a giant field of flowers—a self-portrait. She’s graduating this year, and hopes to study art therapy.

When she looks at the show, Wal-lace says she sees creativity —and time.

“Lots of time,” she says with a laugh, “All the time that people have spent on these projects. A lot of kids spend their lunch hours in the art

room, working on their pieces and getting ahead on the next projects.”

As the last of the sculptures go up on a shelf behind her, she says the exhibit shows off not just the students’ work, but all the work put in by the teachers.

“I’ve never really been included in anything like this before . . . . It’s really awe-

some,” she explains, flashing a smile. “But it’s our art teachers that really make it go together really well.”

◗ Art 33 opens on May 1 and runs until June 7 in the Chilliwack Cultur-al Centre gallery. There is an open-ing reception at 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 3; both the reception and the gallery are free to the public, and the gallery is open Wednesdays to Satur-days from noon to 5 p.m.

Classroom to galleryDessa Bayrock/TIMES

Grade 12 student Katelyn Wallace’s skeleton prints are part of the Art 33 exhibit in the Chilliwack Cultural Centre gallery this month, which features the work of students from Sardis secondary, Chilliwack secondary, and G.W. Graham.

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Lindley’s music carries a global theme; a celebrated musician, he has toured extensively. In 1991 he travelled to Madagascar to record indigenous music, returning with six albums’ worth after only two weeks.

“We felt Lindley was a great choice for this year’s fundraiser because of his deep connection to world music, which fits well with

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Lindley’s ability to pull details from a of world music (from reggae to blues to Celtic and Arabic influ-ences) is reflected in his choice of instruments, which ranges from ban-jo to steel guitar and into more exotic instruments like the Turkish saw and chum bus or the Irish bouzouki.

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“We’re working our way up the coast,” says Canadian country star

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Lund and his band of Hurtin’ Albertans will be hitting a Chilliwack stage next week, playing at the Cul-tural Centre on May 8.

They’ve toured across Canada countless times, but this is the first time the band has plans to stop in Chilliwack.

“The Lower Mainland is always a good time,” he says with a laugh.

Overall, they’ll be in B.C. for a little under a week—stopping in Chilli-wack, Kelowna and Kamloops, but also smaller cities like Williams Lake, Salmon Arm and Nelson.

“Sometimes we play for 60 people, and sometimes we play for 5,000,” Lund says.

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In the meantime, the band is working their way through California and looks forward to returning to the B.C. stage.

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142 OFFICE SUPPORT/CLERKS



160 TRADES, TECHNICAL

PERSONAL SERVICES

182 FINANCIAL SERVICES

188 LEGAL SERVICES

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

203 ACCOUNTING / TAX /BOOKKEEPING

260 ELECTRICAL



281 GARDENING

283 GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS

287 HOME IMPROVEMENTS

320 MOVING & STORAGE

329 PAINTING & DECORATING

332 PAVING/SEAL COATING

338 PLUMBING

341 PRESSURE WASHING

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In accordance with Section 26 of the Community Charter, the Council of the City of Chilliwack gives notice that it intends to lease the property located at 5580 Tyson Road (“RCMP Property”) to Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada as represented by the Minister Responsible for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (“RCMP”), as shown on the map below, and legally described as:

Parcel Identifi er: 026-745-364 Legal Description: Lot 2 Section 1 Township 23 New Westminster District Plan BCP24961 Except Plan EPP30952

NOTICE OF PROPERTY DISPOSITIONBY WAY OF LEASE

The City of Chilliwack is leasing the subject property from the RCMP under a ground lease in connection with the construction and operation of a new Firing Range Building on the subject property. Concurrent with the ground lease, the City is subleasing the subject property back to the RCMP for a term of approximately 7 years commencing on the date that the City has satisfi ed all statutory obligations in connection with the leases and ending on or about December 31, 2020. All costs associated with the ground lease and the lease will be paid by the RCMP.

For enquiries, please contact Wayne Moseanko, Property Manager, City of Chilliwack, 8550 Young Road, Chilliwack BC V2P 8A4 (Phone: 604.793.2936) (Email: [email protected]).

Janice McMurrayDeputy City Clerk

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DOWNSIZING 60 year collec-tion 100’s of new or never used goodies at a fraction of replacement cost! Like pickup truck tool boxes from $20, small pick up truck fi berglass canopies from $30, alum pickup bed liners $100 (over $1000 new) fender liners $60, like new pick up ladder rack $100, tele-scoping 1500 lb capacity cargo carrier adjusts to fi t any size pickup (needs small repair) $200 (cost $2400) fi berglass tailgate protector $10, other items include old wheel bar-row with steel spoke wheels for moveable garden planters $60, antique hand dollys, ma-nure spreader for garden cen-tre piece $125, two wooden wagon wheels on axle $250, nice 40’ alum ext ladder $210 (no Chilliwack store carries 40’ ladders) big steel machinery wheels from $40 ea, heavy lawn roller for your personal or commercial lawn rolling $80, also small one for lady to pull (water fi lled) $35, large an-tique vices from $20, gorgeous old Golden Jet out board (small) may even run $100, old cement garden decor incl 30” high (heavy) lion plus 17” cement lion and 2’ swan plant stand, copper boilers from $20, collection of platform scales (brass beams) as low as $30, lots of loading ramps for ATV’s etc, cheap, Grecian marble type fountain with pump $100 (44” high) club ca-det cordless commercial mow-er (40 volt) like new $200 (see at Home Depot approx $400 (on sale) old Evenrude & Johnson controls $20 - $40, several old ploughs as garden decor (all less than $100) lob-ster traps & walk behind horse plough from Maritimes, an-tique tractor wrenches etc $5, biggest collection of old steel farm wheels in the valley start-ing at $15, log & metal garden benches and hundreds of oth-er items, 45 gal oak barrels need some repair $50 (call for appt immed (604)793-7714 Agassiz. Dealers Welcome

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627 HOMES WANTED

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TAKE NOTICE that the Council of the City of Chilliwack will hold a Public Hearing, as noted above, on the following items:

1. TEMPORARY USE PERMIT (TUP00052) Location: 7455 Vedder Road (a portion of) Applicant: Bill Driesen Purpose: The applicant is seeking approval to utilize the interior of the existing commercial building as Mini-Storage Warehousing, and the area within the existing fenced compound for the Open Storage of Recreational Vehicles and Motor Vehicles, on a portion of the subject property, as shown on the map below. The property is zoned CD-25 (Comprehensive Development - 25) which does not permit the proposed use on the portion of this property; as such, a Temporary Use Permit (TUP) is required. Location Map:

2. TEMPORARY USE PERMIT (TUP00053) Location: 101B - 43869 Progress Way Applicant: 0762143 BC LTD Purpose: The applicant is seeking approval for the use of unit 101B, an industrial unit within an existing building, on the subject property as shown on the map below, as a retail showroom space for a manufacturer of salon, restaurant and home furniture. The proposed retail space will be located adjacent to a new proposed café within unit 101A, with the intent that the two businesses support one another. The property is zoned CD-12 (Comprehensive Development - 12) which does not permit the proposed retail use; as such, a Temporary Use Permit (TUP) is required. Location Map:

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGTuesday, May 6, 2014 at 7:00 p.m.

Council Chambers8550 Young Road, Chilliwack, B.C. V2P 8A4

www.chilliwack.com

This notice is sent to property owners and occupants, where appropriate, of lots within 30 metres of the property subject to the permit. Persons who deem that their interest in the properties is affected by the proposed Temporary Use Permits will have an opportunity to be heard at the Public Hearing or, if you are unable to attend, you may provide a written submission, including your full name and address, to the City Clerk’s Offi ce no later than 4:00 p.m. on the date of the Public Hearing. All submissions will be recorded and form part of the offi cial record of the Hearing.The proposed Temporary Use Permits may be inspected between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays, from Wednesday, April 23, 2014 to Tuesday, May 6, 2014, both inclusive, in the Offi ce of the City Clerk at City Hall, 8550 Young Road, Chilliwack, BC. Please direct your enquiries to our Planning & Strategic Initiatives Department at 604-793-2906.Please note that no further information or submissions can be considered by Council after the conclusion of the Public Hearing.Janice McMurrayDeputy City Clerk

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1. ZONING BYLAW AMENDMENT BYLAW 2014, No. 4006 (RZ000838) Location: 42409 Yarrow Central Road Owners: Henry and Antje Schouten Purpose: To rezone the subject property, as shown on the map below, from an R1-A (One Family Residential) Zone to an R1-C (One Family Residential - Accessory) Zone to facilitate the development of an accessory dwelling unit. Location Map:

5. ZONING BYLAW AMENDMENT BYLAW 2014, No. 4016 (RZ000842) Location: 7455 Vedder Road (a portion of) Applicant: City of Chilliwack Purpose: A proposed text amendment to the CD-25 (Comprehensive Development - 25) Zone, to increase the permitted Floor Area Ratio for a Mini Storage Warehouse Use from 1.0 to 1.2, affecting the area as shown on the map below, to facilitate the development of a mini storage facility. Location Map:

6. ZONING BYLAW AMENDMENT BYLAW 2014, No. 4013 (RZ000844) Location: 7168 Rochester Avenue Owner: CVK Developments Ltd. Purpose: To rezone the subject property, as shown on the map below, from an R1-A (One Family Residential) Zone to an R3 (Small Lot One Family Residential) Zone, to facilitate future subdivision. Location Map:

2. ZONING BYLAW AMENDMENT BYLAW 2014, No. 4010 (RZ000841) Location: 42420 Yarrow Central Road (a portion of) Owners: Dale Halcrow and Valerie Halcrow Purpose: To rezone portion of the subject property, as shown on the map below, from an RR (Rural Residential) Zone to a CS1 (Service Commercial) Zone to facilitate the construction of a boat sale, service and storage facility. Location Map:

3. ZONING BYLAW AMENDMENT BYLAW 2014, No. 4014 (RZ000842) Applicant: City of Chilliwack Purpose: A proposed text amendment to update the regulations and licencing requirements for food trucks/carts, with the objective of broadening the permitted locations and simplifying the regulations.

4. ZONING BYLAW AMENDMENT BYLAW 2014, No. 4015 (RZ000842) Applicant: City of Chilliwack Purpose: A proposed text amendment to update and simplify the Accessory Home Occupation (AHO) Regulations. The proposed amendments will expand the range of AHO businesses permitted in association with various types of residential units, such as duplexes, townhouses and accessory dwelling units.

Persons who deem that their interest in the properties is affected by the proposed amendment bylaws will have an opportunity to be heard at the Public Hearing or, if you are unable to attend, you may provide a written submission, including your full name and address, to the City Clerk’s Offi ce no later than 4:00 p.m. on the date of the Public Hearing. All submissions will be recorded and form part of the offi cial record of the Hearing.The proposed bylaws may be inspected between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays, from Wednesday, April 23, 2014 to Tuesday, May 6, 2014, both inclusive, in the Offi ce of the City Clerk at City Hall, 8550 Young Road, Chilliwack, BC. Please direct your enquiries to our Planning & Strategic Initiatives Department at 604-793-2906.Please note that no further information or submissions can be considered by Council after the conclusion of the Public Hearing.

Janice McMurrayDeputy City Clerk

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGTuesday, May 6, 2014 at 7:00 p.m.

Council Chambers8550 Young Road, Chilliwack, B.C. V2P 8A4

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