Price 60¢ chilliwacktimes.com Hadwin beaten in Open playoff 13 T U E S D A Y INSIDE: New downtown church offering more than just faith Pg. 3 July 9, 2013 NEWS, SPORTS, WEATHER & ENTERTAINMENT Cornelia Naylor/TIMES Chilliwack Stingray swimmer Kennedy Campbell attacks the 50-metre butterfly at the Chilliwack Stingrays Invitational swim meet at Rotary Pool Saturday. SEE MORE PHOTOS layar Three injured after SUV plows into festival crowd BY PAUL J. HENDERSON [email protected]T he scene was chaos and carnage at Harrison Hot Springs Sunday afternoon as a driver—allegedly high on drugs—plowed his SUV into three pedestrians and one vehicle just metres from the Harrison Fes- tival of the Arts beach stage. Three members of one Abbots- ford family were struck by a white Toyota FJ Cruiser at about 1:15 p.m. Their bodies lay strewn over the intersection of Highway 9 and Esplanade Avenue. Screams could be heard from the 37-year-old mother, who was hit and thrown into the air. Also hit were the 51-year-old father and 13-year-old son. The 16-year-old son managed to jump out of the way and could be seen holding his mother’s hand as passersby and, later, emergency personnel attended to the woman. An air ambulance that arrived in Harrison Hot Springs was not used, Stam says new weed rules fair BY PAUL J. HENDERSON [email protected]F ederal changes to the medi- cal marijuana program should address the City of Chilliwack’s concern with the program that cur- rently sees grow-ops in homes and in commercial areas. Many municipalities have long hoped changes coming April 1, 2014 would, among other things, take marijuana growing out of residential areas. On June 10, the federal govern- ment announced the new Marihua- na for Medical Purposes Regulations (MMPR) and from what he has seen, Coun. Chuck Stam said he is pleased. “It will address most of our con- cerns,” Stam told city council last week. Stam is the chair of the city’s Public Safety Advisory Committee, which will discuss the new regulations at its July 10 meeting. Chilliwack has a huge number of licensed marijuana users and grow- ers, something that is a concern to local RCMP, fire officials and city hall. “The problem is that we haven’t had consultation about where grows shall go,” Mayor Sharon Gaetz said earlier this year. In February of this year, the Times learned there were 513 personal use production licences (PUPL) and 77 SWIM MEET GAME FACE See MARIJUANA, Page 3 Drugs may have played a role in horrific crash See CRASH, Page 6 Premium Pre-Owned Vehicles at Live Market Pricing oconnordodgechrysler.com SHOP OUR ENTIRE PREOWNED INVENTORY NOW WITH SHOP OUR ENTIRE PREOWNED INVENTORY NOW WITH DL 5952 8645 Young Street, Chilliwack 604-792-5151 www.jadamandsons.com 06198229 Plumbing Service Department
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T U E S D A Y
INSIDE: New downtown church offering more than just faith Pg. 3
July 9, 2013
N E W S , S P O R T S , W E A T H E R & E N T E R T A I N M E N T
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Chilliwack Stingray swimmer Kennedy Campbell attacks the 50-metre butterfly at the Chilliwack Stingrays Invitational swim meet at Rotary Pool Saturday.
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Three injured after SUV plows into festival crowdBY PAUL J. [email protected]
The scene was chaos andcarnage at Harrison HotSprings Sunday afternoonas a driver—allegedly high
on drugs—plowed his SUV into
three pedestrians and one vehiclejust metres from the Harrison Fes-tival of the Arts beach stage.
Three members of one Abbots-ford family were struck by a white
Toyota FJ Cruiser at about 1:15p.m. Their bodies lay strewn overthe intersection of Highway 9 andEsplanade Avenue.
Screams could be heard from the
37-year-old mother, who was hitand thrown into the air.
Also hit were the 51-year-oldfather and 13-year-old son.
The 16-year-old son managed
to jump out of the way and couldbe seen holding his mother’s handas passersby and, later, emergencypersonnel attended to the woman.
An air ambulance that arrived inHarrison Hot Springs was not used,
Federal changes to the medi-cal marijuana program shouldaddress the City of Chilliwack’s
concern with the program that cur-rently sees grow-ops in homes andin commercial areas.
Many municipalities have long
hoped changes coming April 1, 2014would, among other things, takemarijuana growing out of residentialareas.
On June 10, the federal govern-ment announced the new Marihua-na for Medical Purposes Regulations(MMPR) and from what he hasseen, Coun. Chuck Stam said he ispleased.
“It will address most of our con-cerns,” Stam told city council lastweek.
Stam is the chair of the city’s PublicSafety Advisory Committee, whichwill discuss the new regulations at itsJuly 10 meeting.
Chilliwack has a huge number oflicensed marijuana users and grow-ers, something that is a concern to
local RCMP, fire officials and cityhall.
“The problem is that we haven’thad consultation about where growsshall go,” Mayor Sharon Gaetz saidearlier this year.
In February of this year, the Timeslearned there were 513 personal useproduction licences (PUPL) and 77
SWIM MEET GAME FACE
See MARIJUANA, Page 3
Drugs may have played a role in horrific crash
See CRASH, Page 6
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The first outdoor swimmeet of the year was heldSaturday. See our photogallery.
Page 6 -It was a scene of car-
nage and chaos as anSUV plowed into a crowdattending Sunday’s Harri-son Festival of the Arts.
Page 13 -This year’s Chilliwack
Open had a special guestin Web.com player andAbbotsford native AdamHadwin . . . and he didn’tdisappoint falling just shortin a playoff. See photos ofHadwin and local players.
Anew sign went up on a Welling-ton Avenue awning last week,signalling yet another church in
downtown Chilliwack.But Vern and Sue Tompke promise
that the Vineyard Community Churchtakeover of the 5,500-square-footground floor space that was the Wel-lington Emporium will not be like aregular church.
“We want to be a blessing in the eyesof the community,” Vern told the Times.“I’ve talked to local businesses and saidwe want to add value to the downtown.. . . Give us a year and see if we’ve beenpart of creating a new sense of down-town.”
Vineyard’s first weekly service aftermoving from A.D. Rundle school, thecongregation’s location since 2004, wasto be held this past Sunday.
But this church won’t just be bus-tling on Sundays. With Sue’s interestin the arts and Vern’s in singer-song-writer musicians, the couple wants itto be a community centre, an art club,a gallery, a performance venue for localmusicians and more.
OnThursday, they were racing againstthe clock to get last-minute work doneon the building so they could be openfor the first night of Party in the Park.
Vern hopes the venue will serve as asecond stage for local musicians dur-ing the weekly Friday night downtownevent.
Mayor Sharon Gaetz was unavailableto comment Monday on the Vineyardopening downtown, but on a Facebookdiscussion where some were criticalof a church setting up in retail loca-tion downtown, shesaid: “We are tryingto revitalize the areaof Young, Yale andPrincess to have morepeople live downtownto shop and eat in res-taurants etc. . . . but inthe meantime, build-ings like the Empori-um have sat empty forsome time and hon-estly, I am thankful tosee that it will be used for this purpose.It does us NO good to see boarded upor abandoned buildings downtown.”
On a Facebook page dedicated toChilliwack issues, some were criticalof the Vineyard opening up around thecorner from a church in the old artscentre and another church in a retaillocation.
Promontory Ministries owns prop-erty on Main Street that is home to itschurch, a daycare and church offic-es. There was a rumour the church
planned to expand further into theLiquidation World building, somethingexecutive director John Vermeer con-firmed is possible.
“In answer to your question aboutour future expansion plans, we are stillvery much in the preliminary plan-ning stages on what, where and howany expansion might look like or be
deployed,” Vermeersaid via email.
As for the Tompkes,they say not only dothey have church ser-vices and arts eventsplanned for the newlocation, but they planon renting the spaceout for things likeweddings. Sue said theRoyal Hotel next dooris “thrilled” they have
moved in.But not shying away from the con-
troversy, Vern said he understood theconcern about churches moving intoretail spaces in a downtown that needsrevitalization.
“We want to be more than a church,”Vern said. “I don’t have a difficult timesaying I’m a Christian, but we are notusing the arts and music to leverageour faith.
“I just want to build community. Weare not here to preach at you.”
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Vern and Sue Tompke say the new Vineyard Community Church on Wellington Avenue will be more like an arts centre than a church.
A church . . . yet so much more
“I don’t have adifficult time sayingI’m a Christian, but weare not using the artsand music to leverageour faith.”
Vern Tompke
designated person produc-tion licences (DPPL) in Chilli-wack.
That is more than triple thenumber of legal marijuanagrowers in Chilliwack froma year prior, which in itselfwas more than three timesthe average across BritishColumbia.
Federal health ministerLeona Aglukkaq wrote in anop-ed piece that the chang-es are intended, in part, toaddress the issue of growingmarijuana in private resi-dences.
“The ability for individu-als to produce marijuana inprivate homes has addedto public health, safety andsecurity risks as criminal ele-ments have abused the sys-tem,” she said.
“The government’s goal isto treat dried marijuana asmuch as possible like othernarcotics used for medicalpurposes under the MMPRby creating conditions for anew, commercial industrythat will be responsible forits production and distribu-tion.”
In addition to the concernsaround growing are issuesaround distribution.
The commercial neigh-bours of a recently expandedDPPL in Chilliwack told theTimes earlier this year thatthey once saw a man withan SUV pull up and dump agarbage bag full of marijuanainto the vehicle.
The changes coming in lessthan nine months also meandried marijuana will have tobe shipped through a securedelivery service directly tothe clients.
“Taken together, thesemeasures will reduce therisks of diversion of marijua-na to illicit markets,” Agluk-kaq said.
“The government under-stands the need to continueto provide reasonable accessto a legal source of mari-huana for medical purposesand the new regime does soin a manner that is consis-tent with the way access isprovided for other narcoticsused for medical purposes.”
The victim of a December shoot-ing is set to testify in courtagainst the man alleged to have
shot him.Aaron James David Douglas, 31, is
facing attempted murder charges inconnection with the Dec. 12 shootingof Jeff Karpes.
Karpes was shot twice while in avehicle near the intersection of Wolfeand Ashwell roads.
At a trial confirmation hearingMonday morning, Crown prosecutorDavid Beirne said “Mr. Douglas alleg-edly approached a motor vehicle Mr.Karpes was in and discharged a num-
ber of shots.”In addition to one count of attempt-
ed murder while discharging arestricted or prohibited weap-on, Douglas has been chargedwith possession of a prohib-ited firearm with accessibleammunition. Conviction onthe first gun charge carries athree-year minimum man-datory sentence. Attemptedmurder carries a minimumprison sentence of five years. He isalso charged with possession of a fire-
arm while prohibited.Beirne said the identity of the shoot-
er will be an issue at trial. Thefirearm in question is allegedlya semi-automatic handgun.
A preliminary inquiry is setfor next week. Beirne said thatKarpes was set to testify. Butdefence counsel Ken Beatchwas unsure if he would beready to proceed at that time,due to a large number of doc-
uments just recently delivered to hisoffice.
Shooting victim set to testifyJames Douglas faces attemptedmurder charges in Dec. 12 shooting
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and all three victims werebrought to hospital by ambu-lance and were treated fornon-life threatening injuries.
“With several hundredpeople reported to be in thearea, we are thankful that thefamily survived and no oneelse was injured or killed,”RCMP spokesperson Consta-ble CynthiaK e r s h a wsaid.
The driv-e r o f t h eS U V — as h i r t l e s s,t a t t o o e dCaucasian27-year-oldfrom NewWestminster—got out of thevehicle after the crash butwas put back into the driver’sseat by a witness.
He was smirking, evensmiling and another witnesssaid he appeared to be “outof his mind drunk” and didnot know where he was orwhat was happening.
The driver faces charges
of impaired driving causingbodily harm. Police say drugsare the suspected cause ofimpairment. and his firstcourt appearance is set forOct. 1
Mounties did not releasehis name.
One witness who saw theSUV approach the intersec-tion said the driver was driv-ing “way too fast.” Another
t o l d t h eT i m e s h ewas travel-ling at“high-way speed”when he hita convert-i b l e B M Wbefore hit-t i n g t h epedestrians.
The driver of the BMWstruck managed to turnaround the corner, and heand his passenger appearedto be uninjured.
The incident occurred justafter 1 p.m. Sunday, minutesinto the day’s first beachstage performance as part ofthe Harrison Festival of theArts.
CRASH, from page 1
NewsDriver detained at scene
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A mother struck by an SUV in Harrison Hot Springs Sunday istended to as her 16-year-old son holds her hand.
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“. . . we are thankfulthe family survivedand no one else wasinjured or killed.”
Const. Cynthia Kershaw
Asmall forest fire snuffed out Sunday on ElkMountain Road was caused by humans.
The Fraser Valley Regional District calledin Ministry of Forests firefighters to quell theblaze, which grew to a half-hectare beforebeing squelched.
Fire information officer Marg Drysdale told
the Times Monday that the fire is “currentlybeing de-mobilized.”
Firefighters are pulling out of the area, butwill continue to patrol the site and check forhot spots.
Drysdale said the fire was sparked byhumans in the area.
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The Chilliwack and District Real EstateBoard (CADREB) has put its characteris-tic positive spin on what really are lack-
lustre sales numbers.With 215 home sales last month, a CADREB
press release called it a “noticeable jump,”pointing out it was an improvement over the191 sales in June of 2012
Current CADREB president Jesse Hildeb-randt said the positive news points to a stron-ger national economy.
“Chilliwack and area has always held itsown through some volatile times on the NorthAmerican real estate market, but our num-bers are up not only for the month but overall,based on seasonally adjusted averages,” Hil-debrandt said.
Ever the realist, however, is long-time real-tor and blogger Stephen Mullock who pointsout those last two June sales numbers were thepoorest of the last decade.
Just to go back five years, there were 230 resi-
dential home sales in 2011, 224 in 2010, 250 in2009 and 237 in 2008.
But even Mullock says the market seems tobe slowly improving. He points to a drop inmedian listing prices of single-family homesfrom $369,900 to $359,000 over the last twomonths and a “healthy inventory” of 994homes as reasons why.
In fact, most B.C. markets are looking bet-ter, according to Hildebrandt, but this does notcome without some changes in the bankingindustry.
“For some time, we have enjoyed record lowinterest rates, and in order to create a strongereconomy, there is now upward pressure onmortgage rates,” he said.
“I have said it before, but it bears repeatingat this time: if you are contemplating a homepurchase in the next few months, it is impera-tive that you pre-qualify for a mortgage andthat you get the best possible quote on aninterest rate and lock it in.”
Of the 215 sales last month, the highestnumber of sales (32) were in the $300,000 to$349,999 range.
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It’s summer, which means thatinstead of sitting in the shadeand sipping cool drinks, hun-
dreds of paleontologists and fossilfanatics are spreading out into thebadlands of Canada and the U.S.right now. They’ll be digging up themillions-of-years-old remains ofdinosaurs, mammals, reptiles, fish,amphibians, and plants.
This annual rite has beenobserved for more than 130 years,and its first incarnation was sovicious and competitive, it wasdubbed the BoneWars.
Edward Drinker Cope and Othn-iel Charles Marsh were both pale-ontologists in the 1870s and 1880s,when the discipline was brand newand only a handful of dinosaurswere known in North America.
By the time their war petered outin the early 1890s, they had eachidentified dozens of new species,including not only dinosaurs butsea-going reptiles, prehistoric fish,and mammals.
Both men travelled to thewestern United States, or morefrequently sent teams of bonehunters, to scour exposed stonebluffs and valleys. They broughtback petrified bones, and Copeand Marsh would each rush tobe the first to describe and namethe new species. From this madrush came dinosaurs like Tricer-atops, Stegosaurus, Allosaurus,Camarasaurus, Diplodocus, andCoelophysis.
Aside from massive numbers ofnew dinosaurs, bile was generatedin great quantities by the two men.
Cope and Marsh hated eachother.When Cope reconstructedan Elasmosaurus with the headon the wrong end (hey, both endsare kind of skinny) Marsh had itpointed out. Publicly. Cope startedkeeping a journal of every mistakeMarsh made.
Both men then either resortedto bribing each other’s workers,or sneaking into their opponent’sfossil quarries, or smearing eachother’s reputations in the newspa-pers.
On one occasion, their compet-ing crews threw rocks at each oth-er. Clearly, this was the high watermark for science.
Another product of the BoneWars was a great deal of confusionthat took more sober scholars yearsto unravel.
Consider Brontosaurus, whichdoes not exist. In 1877, Marshnamed a new species, Apatosau-rus, a long-necked, long-tailed sau-ro-pod, which we now know livedmore than 150 million years ago.
Two years later, along came anew skeleton, a different size (theoriginal Apatosaurus was a juvenilewhen it died) and sadly, without ahead. But what can you do? Almostevery fossil skeleton is missingparts, and you’re lucky indeed ifyou have even half a skeleton, oranything more than a few teethand scraps of backbone.
So this new skeleton was morethan enough for Cope to namea new species—Brontosaurus. Amuseum mount created a cast ofa head, based on another type ofsauropod dinosaur.
The error was actually noticedand corrected as far as science wasconcerned in 1903, but the namehad entered the public conscious-ness.
Both Cope and Marsh eventu-ally tired of the feud, and their lateryears were difficult, with financialproblems and political scandals.
If I had to pick a winner in thewar, I couldn’t. Both men contrib-uted much to science, more goodthan bad.
But the next generation was bet-ter. Charles H. Sternberg, who hadworked for Cope, and his sons latercompeted with Barnum Brown inAlberta and the American west.Their competition was friendly,however, and still turned up amaz-ing fossils, including the first goodremains of Tyranosaurus rex, thetyrant lizard king.◗ Matthew Claxton is a reporter
Hard toargue withthe resultsT
here was a huge outcry whenB.C.’s tough new drinking anddriving laws came into effectnearly three years ago, but the
results seem clear: the new laws are savinglives.
According to a study completed lastmonth by Scott Macdonald, assistantdirector of the University of Victoria’s Cen-tre for Addiction Research, there’s been a42 per cent reduction in alcohol-relatedfatal crashes since the new laws came intoeffect in September 2010.
Macdonald and his team took intoaccount that drinking and driving col-lisions have been dropping for threedecades in North America, due to edu-cation, graduated licensing and otherchanges.
But over and above that drop, they say,the new laws have prevented an estimated44 fatal collisions per year.
Macdonald credits the success of thenew laws partly to the fact that they savepolice time. Instead of taking three hoursto process one person through the Crimi-nal Code, he told the Globe and Mail, anofficer can now give an immediate sanc-tion to a driver who blows over the legallimit, then get back on the road and lookfor more drinking drivers.
But the new laws have their detrac-tors. The BC Civil Liberties Association(BCCLA), for example, is an intervener ina case called Chisholm et al. v. Superin-tendent of Motor Vehicles—brought by anumber of people challenging the tougherregulations.
The BCCLA believes the laws are unjustbecause the only evidence of impairmentis the result of the roadside screeningdevice, which it says is not as reliable as aBreathalyzer, and yields results that wouldnot stand up in court. The group also saysthe laws are unjust because they imposesevere penalties without a criminal con-viction.
The presumption of being innocentuntil proven guilty is the cornerstone ofour legal system, yet getting drunk driversoff the road saves lives.
How do we balance these competinginterests? It seems the get-tough camp hasalready won, since it’s impossible to arguewith a grieving parent holding a photo of achild who was killed by a drinking driver.
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Editor:I don’t usually write let-
ters to the editor but I dowant to thank the ex-mayorsfor their concern about thepotential for devastatingfloods in the Fraser Valley.
One discussion point puz-zled me, though, and that isriverbed gravel removal asflood prevention. This plandoesn’t stand up to seriousscrutiny. Even if we removea significant amount ofgravel from one part of theFraser River, the water flowin next year’s freshet willquickly fill the hole and theriver level will be affectedvery little, if at all.
Logic suggests that wewould have to remove riv-erbed gravel from north ofHope to the Strait all at once—something I am not sug-gesting—to have any impacton river levels.
In fact, removing gravelfrom one part of the riv-erbed may result in unin-tended consequences. Thegravel removal site willchange the flow of waterand river dynamics furtherdownstream. I wonder ifany credible group has doneany studies on how the rivermight change due to thepresent process of gravelremoval.
The flooding in Albertaand the quirky weather in
the U.S., as well as wetterweather in B.C., is prob-ably the new normal as theearth’s climate continues tochange.
In B.C., when we coupleglobal warming with themountain pine beetle dev-astation and poor loggingpractices, serious floodingin the Fraser River basin isalmost inevitable.
The most effective rivermanagement we can do isto strengthen, extend andraise the level of the dikesystem on the Fraser Riverthroughout the whole LowerMainland.
Otherwise, I fear that wewill encounter a dike-top-ping spring freshet soonerrather than later.
Doug AstleChilliwack
Need a lightat Wells RoadEditor:
I am writing this letter inresponse to your recent articlein the July 4 issue of theTimes.
Since the opening of theEvans Road flyover, traffic inthis area has increased signifi-cantly.
The traffic on Evans Road ataround 4 p.m. onward is ter-rible. Thus making it impos-sible to turn left off ofWellsRoad, which makes the trafficonWells Road back up almostto Meadow Lark Street.
The speed at which thesecars are travelling at is goingto cause a severe accident atthe corner. There needs to bea light put up at that inter-section. Also, since making
Knight Road a no-truck route,now the trucks are travellingonWells Road. This used to bea very quiet residential area,but now with all the increasedtraffic this is no longer a quietarea.
I believe that the Chilliwackcouncil and staff need tolook at put a signal light onthis corner before a accidentoccurs. Did the council notthink that traffic was going toincrease in this area?
As a taxpayer, I would likecity council to look into thismatter and reconsider onputting a signal light at thiscorner.
Rita BaumeisterChilliwack
She wants herflowers backEditor:
On the night of June 29someone decided that theyneeded a clump of beautifulblood red asiatic lillies morethan I did, and stole themfrom my front yard.
To the person who tookthem, I will give you backthe green-handled woodenspoon you dug them up with.I live onWilliams Street, youknow where. I want them back!
Shelley RobertsChilliwack
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Huskers hostRams squad
The Chilliwack Huskershost a scrimmage againstthe Langley Rams Saturdayafternoon at TownsendPark. A week later, they kickoff their 2013 British Colum-bia Football Conference sea-son in Kelowna against theOkanagan Sun. The gamecan be viewed online atwww.virtualbroadcastnet-work.com. The Huskers playtheir first home game Aug.3 at Townsend Park againstthe Kamloops Broncos.
Women’s teamneeds players
The Chilliwack women’scricket team, the No-Ballerz,are again playing. TheLadies are always welcom-ing new members whetherthey know the game ornot. Practices are held atA.D. Rundle middle schoolThursday nights. ContactJen at 604-316-3567.
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Come to women’s weeklydrop-in badminton. All skilllevels welcome, includingbeginners. Tuesdays from12: 30 to 2 p.m. at Ever-green Hall (Corbould andSpadina). Drop-in fee of $5.
Bryn Parry narrowly edged Web.com professional Adam Hadwinin a playoff finish to the Chilli-
wack Men’s Open at Chilliwack GolfClub.
Parry, a Vancouver Golf Tour stalwart,made par on the fourth hole of a play-off to defeat Hadwin, who hails fromAbbotsford and played in the U.S. Openearlier this year.
The duel between twoof the biggest names inBritish Columbia golfwas a fitting end to oneof the biggest Opens inthe event’s 55-year history.
“It was probably the most successfulweekend in the history of the ChilliwackOpen,” Chilliwack Golf Club generalmanager Bryan Ewart told theTimes.
Parry and Hadwin both finished thetournament at seven-under par.
On Saturday, Parry had tied a com-petitive course record with an eight-under-par 63, which included sixbirdies on the back nine. He had a moredifficult time Sunday, and had to get upand down to make par on the 18th andfinish at seven-under.
Hadwin, meanwhile, shot Sunday’sbest score—a 66—and birdied the 18thhole to force the playoff.
Going head to head, the two play-ers each birdied the 15th and parredthe 16th. On the 17th, Parry foundthe bunker, but made a stellar chipto save par. On the following hole,both players found themselves off thegreen, but only Parry could get up anddown.
Chilliwack’s Brad Clapp shot a 64 onSaturday to trail Parry by just one shot.He fell off the pace Sunday, shooting a74, and finished tied for fourth place.
Fellow Chilliwack Golf Club pro JaredRempel finished tied for 13th, at two-over-par.
The 44 pros were joined by 180 ama-teurs at the event.
Dan Mitchell claimed victory in thechampionship class.The Flight A crown
wenttoSportsnetPacif-ic host Dan Murphy,while Mark Breier wonFlight B and GeorgeHovanes claimed theFlight C crown.
With the weather perfect, Ewartsaid the event also drew more specta-tors than he had ever seen. Overflowparking was needed, and Ewart saidsome 300 people watched as the lead-ers aimed for the 15th green, where agrandstand, beer garden and barbecuestand proved popular.
Ewart said several golfers raved aboutthe atmosphere following their rounds.
“The golfers really appreciated it,” hesaid.
That has him confident the club canbuild on this year’s success.
“The word is going to get out that thisis one of the best events in the prov-ince,” Ewart said.
Chilliwack’s Mitchell Thiessenand Deroche’s Niko Kraak-man each notched their
second wins of the Optimist FredWellsby Junior Divot Tour last week.
Thiessen shot a four-under par 52to win the tour’s stop at Cheam GolfCourse on Friday.
Thiessen, who had won earlierthat week at Kinkora Golf Course,edged Kraakman by six shots totriumph in the 13-to-15-year-oldclass.
Josh Bamford, of Chilliwack, fin-
ished third. Jake Dewaal’s fourth-place finish earned him a spot atthe Falls championship round thisThursday. (Kraakman, Bamfordand Thiessen had already qualified,although Thiessen will be unable tocompete.)
WestVancouver’s LauraWong shota 67 to win in the 10-to-12-year-oldcategory, while Chilliwack’s AdamKnodel won the nine-and-underclass with a score of 83.
A day earlier, at Fraserglen GolfCourse, Kraakman claimed his sec-
ond straight win with a score of 62.Kraakman, who had won the previ-ous day at Cultus Lake, beat Bam-ford by four strokes.
Wong again triumphed among10-to-12-year-olds, while TysonDyck shot 68 to win the youngestage class.
The tour’s final regulation eventtakes place Tuesday at Valley GolfCentre.
The invitation-only champion-ship tournament is set for Thursdayat The Falls Golf Course.
Parry wins playoff
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Chillliwack’s Brad Clapp and Abbotsford’s Adam Hadwin wait to putt during the firstround of the Chilliwack Open at the Chilliwack Golf & Country Club on Saturday.
Dramatic finishsees Hadwin fallin Open climax
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The Chilliwack Stealers U-14 girls fast-pitch team went undefeated in round-robin play en route to a fifth-place finish
at the provincial championships in Surrey lastweekend.
The Stealers won their first game 10-1, withseveral big hits from Mercedes Schneider. Thefollowing game was tighter, but the Stealersracked up a narrow 3-1 victory over the NewWestminster Royals thanks to the stellar pitch-ing of Shelby Owen and Amanda Marshall.
The bats returned Saturday, with the Steal-ers beating the View Royal Killer Bees 13-6 inthe morning. In the afternoon, they wrappedup their round-robin with an 8-7 win against
the Nanaimo Nitros, thanks in part to greathitting by Ashlyn Einer, Nathania Braun andSchneider.
The Stealers started the playoffs againstthe South Surrey Chicks and found them-selves behind 6-1 early. But the Stealers’offence rallied, with a Marshall home runtying the game at six. The Stealers’ offencecontinued to excel, with Ashley Guthrie’sslap bunt-turned-home run helping theChilliwack girls to a 12-9 win.
The Stealers’ luck ran out Sunday, though,against the top-ranked Causton Koyotes, asChilliwack fell 9-4 to the eventual tournamentchampions.
The Midget AAA Cougars scored a pairof wins on the road in West KelownaSaturday. The first game of the double-
header saw the Cougars destroy West Kelow-na 24-0. Mike and Dan Rogers combined forfive strikeouts and the shutout.
The second game was a different story,with the Cougars trailing 6-2 entering thebottom of the seventh inning. But Chilliwackrallied, and Cody Hartle batted in the win-ning run for a 7-6 victory.
The Bantam A Cougars also claimed a pairof wins over the weekend, with a 7-5 winover Abbotsford Friday and a 5-3 triumphover White Rock on Sunday.
Carter Bogart threw for four innings andracked up nine strikeouts for the win in thefirst game. In the second, Caelen Samp-son registered three strikeouts, while CalebBlundell got the victory.
The Peewee A Cougars also scored a pairof wins, beating Cloverdale 9-5 Friday andAldergrove 11-7 Sunday. Colton Sampsonthrew out five baserunners to lead a stellardefence in the first game.
The Peewee AAA Cougars, meanwhile,beat Nanaimo 15-3, lost to Victoria 14-1 andcame from behind to down Victoria 10-9.Dylan Ohlsen’s grand slam proved crucial inthe final of the three games.
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Gregarious UFV employee KeithNewport died suddenly on June30.
He was 55.An active and enthusiastic volunteer,
Newport joined UFV on Sept. 29, 2008,as a program technician for the trans-port trades at UFV’s Trades & Technol-ogy Centre in Chilliwack.
He lived inYarrow (or “South Sardis” ashe liked to say) and leaves behind Corry—his high school sweetheart and wife of35 years—three children, Christopher(Kara), Kimberly (Sean), Brandon, andfour grandchildren: Keaton, Kason, Cali,and Sean Keith. He’s also survived by hisfather, Barney Newport, a large extendedfamily, and countless friends.
Trades and Technology director RolfArnold remembers Newport as a dedi-cated employee with an unsurpassedcommitment to his work, his colleagues,and the university.
“His love for his grandchildren, family,and friends was forefront at all times,”Arnold said.
“His high level of integrity, sense ofcommitment, and his humour withinfectious laughter will be truly missed.”
Newport had a huge presence in thecommunity—working with the SpecialOlympics, volunteering as a firefighterat halls in Greendale, Abbotsford andSardis, serving on the executive of the
old-timers hockey association, andactively participating in the local dragracing scene.
As a much-loved driving force whobrought co-workers together, Newportproved that without a doubt you can’tjudge a person by their appearance.Behind his tattooed and tough-lookingexterior was a man with a warm smileand a huge heart who dropped anythingto help a friend.
He was a model UFV employee:fiercely loyal, dedicated, proud, put-ting in countless hours of his own timeto promote trades programming. Nevercontent to just sit back, Newport workedhard to support students and faculty.Most recently, he encouraged childrenand adults to enjoy a drag racing simula-tor outside UFV’s new campus at Chilli-wack’s Five Corners during a popular car
show on June 23. He also volunteered atUFV’s Convocation 2013, greeting grad-uates and their families as they enteredthe Abbotsford Entertainment andSports Centre.
His keen attention to detail, tradeexpertise and commitment to the pro-grams he supported were second tonone—and it showed in the tool roomNewport oversaw, where tools were keptwhere they belonged, every sticker wasstuck straight, and it seemed you couldactually eat off the floor.
He was known to say “it’s either perfector it’s wrong.”
In lieu of flowers the family gratefullyrequested that donations be made inmemory of Newport to the University ofthe Fraser Valley by visiting www.ufv.ca/keithnewport. A celebration of Newport’slife will take place in Chilliwack on July 20.
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Keith Newport will be remembered as an active and enthusiastic volunteer.
Newporttouchedmany lives
Parkinson’s supportA Parkinson’s support groupmeets the secondTuesday ofevery month (July 9) at 2 p.m.at Evergreen Hall. The groupis for anyone with Parkinson’sand their care givers or any-one interested in learningabout the disease. For moreinformation email [email protected] or call 604-798-9653.
Music and MoreThe Chilliwack Library’s annu-al Music andMore eventstake place everyWednesdayuntil Aug. 21 at Salish Parkbehind the Chilliwack Library.The series features weeklychildren’s activities and eve-ning concerts. Admission isfree. The ChilliwackYMCAhosts the annual teddy bearpicnic July 10 at 12:15 a.m.Bring your teddy or stuffyand join the fun. At 7 p.m. NoTime Flat perform their ‘40s-era popular jazz stylings andshow tunes
Lace Club meetsThe Chilliwack Lace Clubmeets every month on thesecond and fourth Thursdays(July 11) from noon to 3 p.m.in the Slesse Room of Ever-green Hall. Bring your lunch.Anyone interested in lace iswelcome. Lessons in bobbinlace are available. For moreinformation call Hylda Law
at 604-858-4953 or JennyAlthoff at 604-823-4705.
Music on the beachTheMain BeachGazebo atCultus Lake is the site ofMusicon the Beach July 11 at 7 p.m.The bandHead over Heels willperform.The eventwill moveto the community hall if it’sraining. The event is free.
Summer nature campsJuly and August are excitingmonths at the Great BlueHeron Nature Reserve. Kidsages five to 12 are invited tosign up for the reserve’s excit-ing summer camps and fam-ily art workshops. Visit www.chilliwackblueheron.com oremail [email protected].
Grief programs offeredThe Chilliwack Grief SupportNetwork offers grief programsfor parents, spouses and adultchildren. The Spouses andPartners Grief Networkmeetsevery Saturday afternoonfrom1 to 3 p.m.The Parents’Grief Networkmeets once amonth through the summerand biweekly afterwards. Fordetails call 604-793-7239.
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Ayear after reporting that Chill-iwack residents were threemore times likely than aver-age British Columbians to be
licensed medical marijuana growers,the Times has learned the number hastripled.
According to figures obtained throughan Access to Information request inJanuary 2012, 238 Chilliwackresidents were licensed topossess marijuana for medi-cal reasons and 193 werelicensed to produce marijua-na for medical purposes.
There were 4,608 licensedusers and 3,831 licensedgrowers in all of BritishColumbia 13 months ago. That trans-lated to about 85 growers and 102 usersper 100,000 people. But Chilliwack hadabout 280 growers and 344 users per100,000 residents.
Health Canada has told the Timesthere are now 666 persons in Chilliwackwho hold a licence to possess marijua-na for medical purposes.
That’s a 180 per cent increase in oneyear and mirrors provincial increases.As of Feb. 18, there were 13,362 peoplein B.C. authorized to possess, up 190per cent from a year ago, and account-
ing for nearly half of the 28,076 acrossCanada.
The number of those growing mari-juana increased even more.
As of last week, there were 513 indi-viduals in Chilliwack who hold personaluse production licences (PUPL) and 77who hold designated person produc-tion licences (DPPL). Assuming the 193number from a year ago included bothPUPLs and DPPLs (Health Canada wasunable to confirm this by press time)
that’s a three-fold, or 206per cent, increase in grow-ers in the city in one year.
Provincewide, the num-ber of growers rose from3,831 a year ago to 11,601(9,369 PUPLs and 2,232DPPLs) today. That com-pares to a total of 9,846
growers in the nine other provinces andthree territories combined.
In the past decade, Health Canadasays the medical marijuana programhas grown exponentially across thecountry, from under 500 authorizedpersons in 2002 to more than 28,000today.
Mayor Sharon Gaetz and several citycouncillors have made no secret of theirhealth and safety concerns regardingmedical marijuana licences.
More local students aregraduating within sixyears of starting Grade 8,
but the Chilliwack school districtstill lags almost seven per centbehind the provincial grad-rateaverage, according to 2011-12 sta-tistics released last week.
The district saw a 3.3 per centincrease in its six-year completionrate overall last year, with a 5.1 percent gain among girls and a 1.4 percent bump among boys.
Since grad rates in the provinceas a wholeimprovedb y l e s st h a n o n ep e r c e n t ,2 0 1 1 - 1 2saw Chilli-wack makethe biggestgains against the provincial aver-age in more than 10 years.
One important area where thisdidn’t apply, however, was amongaboriginal students.
While the provincial averagethere went up by 2.7 per cent, Chill-iwack saw a 2.7 per cent decline,putting its aboriginal rate 3.5 percent below the provincial average.
Before last year, grad rates inChilliwack had consistently comein about 10 per cent below theprovincial average for more than adecade.
But local officials now say thosefigures haven’t accurately reflect-ed the real picture in Chilliwackbecause the traditional six-year
Grad ratebetter,but stillbehindprovince
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Newport, Keith Roy
Keith Roy Newport, 55, of SouthSardis, BC, passed awaysuddenly on June 30, 2013.
Keith is already greatly missedby Corry, his high schoolsweetheart and loving wife of 34years, his awesome children,Chris (Kara), Kim (Sean) andBrandon and the grandchildren headored, Keaton,Kason, Cali and Sean Keith. He leaves behind hisfather Barney and was predeceased by his motherValerie. He is missed by sister Lynn, Corry’s parentsPeter and Hendrika Vink and large family of sister &brother-in-laws, nieces and nephews. Keith alwaystook the time to hear about the kid’s plans anddreams, to help and encourage them. He will also bemissed by his many close and dear friends.
He was loud, proud, generous and we loved him! Hewould help anyone and everyone and will be greatlymissed in an eclectic circle of communities - UFVTrades, Chilliwack Minor Hockey, Oldtimer’s Hockey,Chilliwack Chiefs and Billet Program, Special Olympics,Chilliwack Fire Department, Mission Drag Racers,Young Farmers Association and others.
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, July 20 at2:00 pm at Cornerstone Christian Reformed Church,9800 McNaught Road, Chilliwack, the site of happymemories for Keith and Corry, where they wed andbaptized their 3 beautiful children.
A Celebration of Life, in true Newport fashion, willfollow at apprx. 4:00pm at the Chilliwack Corn MazePavillion, 41905 Yale Road West.
In lieu of flowers, the family gratefully requestsdonations to be made in memory of Keith to UFV byvisiting www.ufv.ca/keithnewportOr to Special Olympicshttps://www.specialolympics.bc.ca/ways-give/donate-online.
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Notice is hereby given thatCreditors and others,having claims against theEstate of Frank JamesMiller, Deceased, formerlyof Unit 236, 6001Promontory Rd, Chilliwack,B.C., are hereby requiredto send the particularsthereof to the undersignedExecutrix, c/o McLachlanBrown Anderson, 10/F, 938Howe Street, Vancouver,B.C. V6Z 1N9, on or beforeAugust 9, 2013, after whichdate the estate’s assetswill be distributed, havingregard only to the claims ofwhich the Executrix thenhas notice. Yee Chow,Solicitor for SandraGardiner, Executrix.
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