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Girls show appreciation to SAR for dog rescueJessica PetersThe Progress

Once their rescue missions are over, the volunteers at Chilliwack Search and Rescue don’t usually hear back from the people they’ve saved.

It’s even more rare to get follow ups about the animals they’ve res-cued along the way.

So when the Chilliwack SAR team had heard that two young girls wanted to thank them for sav-ing their grandparents’ dog, they were pleasantly surprised. The girls, named Abby and Anna, were bring-ing along a sizable cash donation, too.

“I could be wrong but I think this is the first time in the 18 years I’ve been on the team to have young people donating to us,” said Doug Fraser, SAR’s search manager. When the girls visited the SAR head-quarters with their mom, they were treated to a tour of the facilities, and Fraser was told the story of how a dog they rescued came to be lost.

Their story goes back to the late spring, when the two girls were helping to dog sit for their grand-parents up at Cultus Lake. At some point, the dog “caught a scent of something and off it went,” Fraser said. Hours passed as the girls and their mom searched frantically. Finally, they received a tip that the dog had been seen around Sweltzer Creek, and off they went to find him there.

“This was in May,” Fraser said, “and the water was running fairly high in the creek. This dog had gone in a place in the creek where the banks were too steep for it to get itself out. It was exhausted when the girls’ mom found it.”

So, as any animal lover would probably do, the mom went down into the creek to help the stranded canine.

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Gautham Krishnaraj of Chilliwack likes to take on global topics with the creative twist of the spoken word.

The student and slam poet has been advocating for international issues like girls’ education, and has presented at local schools like G.W. Graham and Sardis secondary.

The 20-year-old is the co-founder of Raise Your Voice, and he’s right now gearing up to participate in the 59th session of United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), from March 9-20,

2015 in New York City.“As a young male, advocat-

ing for gender equality and girls’ education is something I find to be very important, and I am anxious to meet with the key world stakehold-ers and partake in valuable discus-sions,” Krishnaraj told The Progress.

The enthusiastic, bilingual uni-versity student is in 3rd year micro-biology and immunology at McGill University in Montreal, and lives on Promontory Heights in Chilliwack. Krishnaraj is outgoing and passion-ate about making a difference.

“He’s been actively involved is serving his community since he was in Grade 6,” said his mom,

Thilaka Krishnaraj. He doesn’t sit around and wait

for other people to ask him to join an effort, she explains. He forges ahead and does it on his own.

“To me, he’s a leader,” she said.He said he’s excited to see what

will happen at the UN session that he has preparing for in the new year. It’s especially timely because it’s been 20 years since the adop-tion of the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. And 2015 is all about implementing the lofty goals they drafted.

“I’m glad to see the focus this year is in on tangible action,” he said. “People always say the UN is

only about talking, but this is about action. That is very important and Raise Your Voice was founded with this in mind.”

He once spoke before a crowd of 20,000 at the Me to We event in Vancouver in 2011, as part of Tedx Victoria, so it won’t be the first time he discusses the power that young people have to change the world.

Krishnaraj launched the non-profit, Raise Your Voice, two years ago, with his friend, Nik Carverhill, when they were at Pearson College UWC on Vancouver Island. The aim is to “empower youth with

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Modern FamilyJustin Mallard and Brett

Rancourt tell their story of a mod-ern family. The married couple became fathers through a surro-gate pregnancy and earned emo-tional support from thousands of residents through Mallard’s blog, Love and Science: Our Modern Family.

Chilliwack flying flag at BC Summer Games

Twenty-two athletes from Chilliwack took part in the BC Summer Games in Nanaimo.

City puts a lid on recycling. Sam Waddington, owner of Mt.

Waddington’s Outdoors store, announces intention to run for city council. The 24-year-old earned a seat in November, with the most votes earned by any of the candi-dates.

Chilliwack champions take provincial title

Three Chilliwack FC squads won provincial championships at Townsend Park and Exhibition Field. The U-13, U-14 and U-15 teams claimed crowns, an unprec-edented feat for Chilliwack soccer.

Riverside campground at Cheam beach

Recreational fishers were invited to cast their lines from the shores of the Cheam beach this summer, as the small First Nation band cre-ated a new campsite. The venture is hoped to be a turning point in attitudes between First Nation and recreational fishers along the Fraser River, where friction has led to frustrations and even violence in the past.

“We want to go down a different path now,” said Darwin Douglas, Cheam band councillor at the time. “We think it’s a good way to move forward.”

Amphibian awardSteve Clegg was recognized

for his work protecting endan-gered toads and frogs, through Superman Award from Fraser Valley Conservancy. Every year, toadlets travel across roadways near Ryder Lake. Over the years, Clegg has been a key player in helping ensure the amphibians have a safe crossing to the lake.

AUGUST

Two dead following shootingAn early morning shooting

rocked the neighbourhood around Gore Ave. on Aug. 7. Richard Blackmon and Tyler Belcourt were killed and one person was sent to hospital. The shooting launched a manhunt for a suspect, Aaron Douglas, that ended almost two months later, on Sept. 25. Douglas was found at a home in Abbotsford and there was a two-hour standoff before his arrest. The case is still before the courts.

Gate locked at Soowahlie Speeding drivers along the back-

roads near Cultus Lake caused the Soowhahlie First Nation band to protect the community by closing off access on weekends and some evenings.

Mercer moveA century-old farmhouse,

known as the Mercer house, was moved from its original location on Yale Road in Rosedale, on steel beams to a field behind its new owner’s house on Nevin Road. The house was offered for free to who-ever could coordinate the removal of the house, which was on land purchased by Tycrop. The land is now a parking lot for the manu-facturer.

Harper visits Chilliwack to talk trade

The prime minister came to town to speak with community and business leaders, with a stop at IMW Industries. The event was intended to showcase Canada’s first trade deal in the Asia Pacific region — the Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement.

SEPTEMBER

New UFV facility opens at Five Corners

UFV’s newest facility was opened to great fanfare in September, and features a bright lobby, a class-room, a computer lab, meeting rooms and offices over two stories

and 7,000 square feet. The promi-nent building at Five Corners was donated to the university by the Bank of Montreal, has been sit-ting in its location for more than a century.

CEPCO also helped with the project, donating $850,000 for ren-ovations. The location will be used for Continuing Education cours-es, including public relations and records management.

Students stay home as strike continues

Schools remained empty as the strike continued, and teach-ers returned to the picket lines. The strike ended on Sept. 22, with kids heading back to school after missing five weeks in classes (two weeks were also lost in June). Teachers inked a six-year deal, with 86 per cent of 31,741 teach-ers voting in favour of the new contract. Additionally, parents of children from kindergarten to age 12 were given $40 a day allowances to help offset extra childcare costs or loss of work.

The new settlement expires on June 20, 2019, includes a 7.25 per cent salary increase, improve-ments to extended health benefits, better rates for on-call teachers and a $400 million education fund for hiring specialist teachers.

Final campfire doused at CLUCCAfter 81 years, the Cultus Lake

United Church Camp closed its operations. The campground’s lease, Cultus Lake Provincial Park, was set to expire on April 30, 2015. There are plans to begin convert-ing the 15-acre piece of land into a public campground.

OCTOBER

Hall of Famers Rick Klassen was one of several

athletes who were inducted into the Chilliwack Sports Hall of Fame on Oct. 25 during its second induc-tion ceremony. Klassen is a Sardis graduate from the ‘70s, played in the Canadian Football League for 10 years.

Looking back at 2014

The Progress continues its review of what wasmaking news, July to December

Brett Rancourt (left) and Justin Mallard became fathers to Jordyn and Sawyer in July. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS

After missing a total of five weeks of school (two in June, and three in September) thousands of students in Chilliwack returned to class on Sept. 22. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has a roud table discussion with Minister of International Trade Ed Fast (left) and IMW Industries president Brian Nguyen during a tour of the local plant on Aug. 20.

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NOVEMBER

Bringing them in from the cold

Chilliwack shelter providers applied for BC Housing funding specifically for extreme weather shelters when temperatures fell below zero. The most recent homeless count for Chilliwack showed there were 77 people living on the streets.

Sardis students left in limbo

Sardis secondary is home base for one of the province’s best high school boys bas-ketball teams. But this fall the squad was left without a coach for the first few months of the

season when longtime coach Kyle Graves was pulled in different directions. One week after a Progress article explained the team’s trouble, two new bench bosses stepped for-ward. Now, the team is led by Harvey Adrian and Martin Giesbrecht, Graves helping out when time allows.

Three times a charm for Chilliwack Mayor

Sharon Gaetz earned her seat as mayor for a third team, winning the election in a land-slide against candidates Cameron Hull and Raymond Cauchi. The rest of council remained much the same, with four incumbents earn-ing their seats.

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led to the construction of a large fence under the Yale Road over-pass at Railway Ave., where several home-less people had taken up shelter. Residents expressed concern that the underpass was becoming unsafe, with excrement and needles being left on the side-walks nearby.

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MARCH

Truckers strikeA 28-day strike by con-

tainer truckers ended with back-to-work legis-lation and promises of government action to end rampant rate under-cutting within the indus-try. The port, provincial and federal governments late in the year unveil a reformed system for truck licensing that’s expected to shrink the number of operators.

Medical marijuana Licensed home grow-

ing of medical marijua-na is supposed to end April 1 in favour of a new commercial distribution system. But the federal government’s strategy is disrupted when medi-cal pot users get a court injunction, pending a constitutional challenge expected in 2015, that allows them to tempo-rarily continue growing their own medicine. The shifting marijuana rules divide doctors on

whether to prescribe pot, while cities worry about how to handle a rush of would-be com-mercial pot producers. Marijuana reform advo-cates, coming off the failure of their signature campaign to trigger a ref-erendum in 2013, were more upbeat in 2014 after legal pot shops opened in Washington State and ‘Prince of Pot’ Marc Emery was released from a U.S. prison.

APRIL Health shakeup

The province ter-minates Fraser Health board chair David Mitchell amid a probe into budget overruns at the health authority and by June CEO Nigel Murray also resigns. The findings of the review launched in 2013 are released in July, rec-ommending a new strat-egy to reduce overuse of hospital ERs and expand primary and community care.

AUGUSTCoal controversy

Port Metro Vancouver approves a planned coal export terminal at Fraser Surrey Docks despite intense opposition from

environmentalists, resi-dents, municipalities and public health officers. The $15-million project is expected to open in the fall of 2015. Climate change activists had hoped to block the flow of U.S. coal through B.C.

OCTOBER Metro waste

Environment Minister Mary Polak refuses to approve Metro Vancouver’s new bylaw banning waste ship-ments out of the region. The move delights oppo-nents of the regional dis-trict’s plan to build a new

waste incinerator, which may be thwarted as a result. Metro leaders say the region’s recycling system is threatened because garbage firms that haul waste out of the region will avoid paying regional tipping fees or complying with bans on the dumping of recycla-bles. Polak assigns MLA Marvin Hunt to study the issues involved.

NOVEMBERKinder Morgan

More than 120 people were arrested attempt-ing to block survey work by Kinder Morgan on

Burnaby Mountain. Anti-pipeline activists won a victory when a court threw out most charges against protesters and refused to extend an injunction, prompting the company to pull out early. The civil disobe-dience followed a series of legal challenges led by Burnaby and under-scored the challenges the Trans Mountain pipe-line expansion will face on the ground. National Energy Board hearings are expected to begin in 2015. Most participants will be limited to written statements.


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First food mobWhen the people of Chilliwack heard

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The event ran for two hours in the parking lot of the Salvation Army, where volunteers made donating quick and easy. Thousands of items were collected, help-ing to fill up the food bank’s reserves right before the Christmas holidays, when ham-pers are needed the most.

Postal service limpingChilliwack’s door-to-door mail delivery

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“We’re still fighting this,” said Peter Butcher, president of the Upper Valley local of Canadian Union of Postal Workers. “We’d like to see door-to-door service remain intact.”

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Trudeau targets Harper’s secrecy

Justin Trudeau has come up with a campaign idea that may help him seal the deal with enough voters to win power in next October’s federal election.

He has taken direct aim at the prime minister’s secrecy, the muzzling of cabinet ministers, MPs and bureaucrats and what he calls “message control.”

Many people who otherwise have few issues with the Conservative government are not happy with the manufactured flow of information. Other than government ads which feature “the Harper govern-ment,” actual information from MPs and civil ser-vants is often sparse. While some MPs are quite open and accessible with citizens and local media, many more are not.

Many cabinet ministers rarely hold press confer-ences. Harper himself is almost permanently unavail-able to the media. He makes a few appearances, such as a recent year-end interview on CBC, but he never answers questions in an impromptu fashion.

Prime ministers don’t have to be your friends. But they do have to be accountable, and that includes saying something that isn’t scripted, at least once in a while.

Like Bard the bowman in The Hobbit, Trudeau has taken aim at this weak spot in the dragon’s scales, and it may score enough votes for him to at least win a minority government.

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From the California drought to shifting forest patterns across B.C., there is evidence that our climate is changing more rapidly. Public debate consists mainly of squabbling about the significance of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, rather than what can be done to prepare.

A draft discussion paper from the B.C. forests ministry on wildfire control was released in December after an access to infor-mation request. “Climate Change Adaptation and Action Plan For Wildfire Management, 2014-2024” describes the progress made in the province’s community forest fire prevention plan, and its goal to create “wildfire resilient eco-

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The final discussion paper is to be released early in 2015, but the

key research is in. It estimates that by 2017 there will be 788 million cubic metres of dead pine in B.C. for-ests. Fires in these areas spread 2.6 times faster than in healthy green stands, up to 66 metres per minute.

The report calls for fuel man-agement beyond community boundaries to stop “mega-fires” by creating landscape-level fuel breaks, with targeted harvesting, prescribed burning and new silvi-culture practices.

It notes that bark beetle infesta-tions and bigger, hotter fires are

being seen across North America, with costs rising along with urban development. For example, the 2011 Slave Lake fire in north-ern Alberta generated the sec-ond largest insurance charge in Canadian history.

The costs of preparing are huge. The costs of not preparing could be catastrophic.

Also in 2014, the B.C. govern-ment appointed an advisory com-mittee to prepare for the renewal of the Columbia River Treaty with the United States.

While this 1964 the treaty has no end date, its flood control mandate expires in 2024. I spoke with Deborah Harford and Jon O’Riordan, members of the Simon Fraser University Adaptation to Climate Change Team (ACT), who, along with ACT senior poli-cy author Robert Sandford, have written a provocative book on the

treaty. They hope it will help lead to a renewed agreement that will be a model for a changing world.

“If you’re looking ahead 60 years from 2024, there’s a lot of climate change projected in that period, for British Columbia and the U.S.,” Harford said. “For the B.C. side, we’re looking at heavy precipitation and poten-tial increase in snowmelt runoff, while in the States, you’re getting the opposite, much less snow.

“There will probably be no snowpack left down there, and they’re looking at the prospect of quite drastically lower flows in the summer.”

The treaty, sparked by devastat-ing floods in 1948, led to construc-tion of three dams on the B.C. side and one at Libby, Washington that backed up Kookanusa Lake into B.C. Between that reservoir and the Arrow Lakes, 110,000

hectares of B.C. land was flooded, including orchards, dairy farms and the homes of 2,000 people.

Those dams hold back spring flood water and provide for irriga-tion that has allowed Washington to expand its agriculture to a $5 billion-a-year industry. The treaty shares the value of hydroelec-tric power generated by the many downstream U.S. dams such as the Grand Coulee, but it pays B.C. nothing for agricultural benefits that were achieved at the cost of B.C. farms and aboriginal ter-ritories.

O’Riordan notes that climate shifts create a strategic benefit for B.C. The U.S. has no more dam capacity to exploit, and needs us more than ever, for flood protec-tion and water supply.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @tom-fletcherbc Email: [email protected]

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The name, Metro Vancouver congestion tax is false advertis-ing, as the only way to reduce road congestion and associated gridlock is by reducing road space for cars and this is not being done.

Subways don’t reduce conges-tion and are only built to accom-modate high ridership on routes which demands long trains and large stations. Traffic flows along

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road space for its route, thus modern LRT reduces road space for cars while at the same time offers a convenient and attract transit alternative. It’s why LRT is built around the world and SkyTrain is not.

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Malcolm JohnstonRial for the Valley

Looking back on the year, it is increas-ingly clear that Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s priorities are no longer the priorities of Canadians.

His Conservative government has focused economic attention solely on its promise to introduce an expensive income split-ting scheme.

Paying for it has trumped every other need. Over a billion dollars for veterans’ services have gone unspent while the gov-ernment closed nine local offices—making it even harder to access a support system the Auditor General called “complex and time-con-suming.” Veterans who needed mental health services have been left waiting months, even

years, to get help. Spending on infra-

structure projects through the Building Canada Fund has been cut by 90%. Employment Insurance payroll taxes have been frozen at artificially high levels. Other taxes, such as tariffs on imports, have gone up. Public safety has been shortchanged, from search and rescue to food inspection and rail safety to environ-mental protection.

All for the sake of income splitting, which will cost the federal gov-ernment a whopping $2 billion a year, but will not benefit 85% of Canadian households. Single mothers and fathers, those who have the least and couples with similar incomes will get nothing. Among the few who will benefit,

the largest benefit will go to those who need it the least.

There is no reason why middle class fami-lies should have to pay to give families like Mr. Harper’s a $2000 tax break.

Worst of all, this scheme will do nothing to help with our mid-dling economic out-look. Economic growth continues to be low, the jobs market slug-gish and household debt high. Federal mis-management has left big projects like the Keystone XL pipeline struggling to get going. Exports are only return-ing to their pre-reces-sion peak.

Liberals have been hearing from Canadians that this is just not good enough. They are look-ing not only for a dif-

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Canadians can’t afford another misspent year.

Judy Foote, MPLiberal Party of Canada Whip

In response to the two articles in your Readers Write Column this past month from Mr. Davis and Mr. Hagman, I further wish to add my concerns.

I was in Vancouver yesterday (18 Dec) and the price of gas was only 109.0 cents. After sub-

tracting the Transit tax (which people in Chilliwack do not pay) of 17 cents per litre, this results in a price of 92.9 cents per litre. The price in Chilliwack was 101.9 cents! This means that gas con-sumers in Chilliwack are paying an additional 9 cents per litre.

The price in Abbotsford was 99 cents, which means they are even paying an additional 7 cents per litre.

Why is the media not report-ing on this price gouging on the front page?

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The Community Event Checklist went live this month on the city website.

The original check-list was created in 2011

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It was the upshot of staff asking the ques-tion: “How can we

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“Considering that the majority of events and programs are orga-nized by volunteers, it is an added bonus that both the hard copy and electronic versions of the Community Event Checklist will allow historical tracking of events.

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Union and non-union truckers met Sunday in Surrey to discuss their next steps after talks Friday with Port Metro Vancouver’s CEO.

Truckers staged a 28-day strike last March that ended on government promises to reform the rate struc-ture to halt rampant undercutting and stabi-lize the industry.

The province passed legislation in October to set minimum rates but only revealed them Dec. 15.

“They didn’t live up to their end of the bargain,” said Paul Johal, president of the Vancouver container truckers local of Unifor. “It was supposed to put money in our pock-ets but they’re taking money away from us.”

He estimates the shortfall on rates will add up to $50 a day less for employee drivers and $150 to $200 less for owner-operators.

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But the woman herself was standing in cold spring waters up to her chest, too. Knowing she was in a predica-ment, she moved to a different spot in the creek and waited for help to arrive.

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Little did the rescuers know that the young girls were avid fundraisers for animal welfare, collecting bottles and cans as a way to be able to donate to the OWL society in the past. Because of the way the Chilliwack SAR team rescued their mom, and the dog, the girls decided to donate $200 to the local organization.

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The meeting with the family, so many months later, was well received at SAR headquarters.

“It’s always nice to get some fol-low up, and it doesn’t happen terribly often,” Fraser said.

They even tweeted out a message to the girls, along with a photo from their tour of the SAR headquarters.

“Thank you Abby and Anna for your donation to Chilliwack Search and Rescue!” they wrote. “These generous and community-minded young ladies collect pop cans and normally donate the funds raised to help animals in need. This year, in recognition of a recent task where we assisted their aunt’s dog, the ladies opted to donate $200 of their hard-earned funds to our team. We are so grateful for their generosity!”

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Another concern is a new Port Metro Vancouver rule that as of 2019 only trucks less than 10 years old can access container termi-nals.

McGarrigle said feder-al officials have promised to review that change,

which he said would be “punitive and discrimina-tory” because truckers would be forced to buy new vehicles more often.

Other changes made by the port and province are to bring a new licence system and reduce the number of trucks allowed

to serve port terminals.But McGarrigle said

the new rate structure is the key sticking point, predicting it will mean continued industry insta-bility.

Provincial govern-ment officials could not be reached for comment.

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The best team in Chilliwack last season endured a tumultuous offseason.

The Sardis Falcons, fourth place finishers at last spring’s AAA provincials, were on life support in early October.

With Kyle Graves stepping aside as head coach, there was no one to guide the team until Harvev Adrian and Martin Giesbrecht stepped up at the 11th hour.

“Martin and I both feel that we have the ability, and value the opportunity to pour into the lives of these young men to help them become good leaders on and off the basket-ball court,” Adrian said at the time. “The big-gest challenge will be keeping up with them. They are all very moti-vated and the game has changed so much.”

There’s little pres-sure on the Falcons as the new season dawns. With only four return-ees, this is a clear rebuilding year.

Gone are big guns Hayden Lejeune, Cam Servatius and Eric Rogers.

But that doesn’t mean Sardis is a young team, with a roster that includes eight Grade 12s and five Grade 11s.

John Nagayo figures to be one of the key players, running the offence from the back-court.

“He is a good floor general and can shoot very well,” Adrian noted.

Senior Brayden Speaks-Chinda brings size and skill to the front-court as the team’s most athletic player.

Peter St. Louis is a versatile player, capable of scoring off the drive

and dropping long-range bombs.

At six-foot-six, Edward Stanciu is the tallest Falcon, a raw project who hasn’t played a lot of basket-ball.

Among the younger players, Logan Clegg is the team’s best rebounder and has been a scoring leader in most early season games.

“He had a high of 30 in one game,” Adrian observed.

Other roster mem-bers are Adam Wise, Michael Kim, Sam Shin, Ram Manfero-Placente, Scott Chen, Santana McKay, Matt Haley, Keegan Lightle and Quinn Hoeppner.

“We are young as far as basketball experi-ence goes, with some Grade 12 players who haven’t played team ball for a few years,” Adrian assessed. “We hope to improve greatly as the season goes on. Making the playoffs in our league will be a tough task.”

— This year’s top local squad figures to be the GW Graham Grizzlies.

The GWG roster features many familiar names who spent their offseasons playing for the Grizzly football team.

Diego Pineda has a pigskin scholarship to Guelph waiting for him. In the meantime, he brings size and strength to the post position for GWG.

Other football players on the roster include Brett Westad, Emerson Smith, Treyvon Walsh, Tyler Sprott and Jordon Breuker.

The leader on the floor is Gabe Mannes, younger brother of for-mer GWG scoring star Lucas Mannes.

“He’s been averag-ing over 25 points per game,” coach Jake Mouritzen said. “He penetrates the paint at will, can hit the deep three and the pull-up jumper.”

Ryan Trottier was a standout at GWG’s Showcase Invitational tournament.

“He scores with ease every way possible on offence,” Mouritzen said. “And he can shut

down a point guard or four-man on defence. He’s become an out-right star.”

Mateo Urbano was another shining light in the preseason tour-nament, making his return from sports-her-nia surgery.

Lightning quick, the Grade 11 shooting guard helps the Grizz push the pace against slower squads.

Phil Weston is anoth-er notable up front as a dominant post play-er. He is probably the team’s top defensive rebounder.

Other roster mem-bers are Josh Morgan, Curtis Kmyta, Colton Cymbaluk, Jon Steele and Kyle Helsloot.

“After graduating 12 players in 2012 and going through a two

year rebuild, we believe we have the players to compete against any-one in the province,” Mouritzen said. “We have the most size in the post that we’ve ever had. Combined with a lethal back court, that gives us opportunities to win every night.”

— The Chilliwack Storm go into this sea-son with new faces patrolling the bench.

Longtime head coach Joe Mauro is guiding the juniors this year, leaving Wayne Johnson in charge of the senior squad.

Johnson takes over a team that is ‘small in stature but big in heart.’

“We need to out work and out hustle our opponents to compete a this level,” he said. “We

need to gel as a team and get the most out of everybody.”

The Storm have just three seniors in Matthias Alleckna, Brandon Gandire and Jordan Shultz.

Gandire can play shooting guard or power forward, with great leaping ability that makes him the team’s best rebounder.

Gandire often match-es up against the oppo-nent’s top player, and Johnson feels he can be a dominant star.

“When he wants to,” Johnson added a quali-fier. “He just needs to be consistent and hard working.”

Alleckna is one of the team’s back-court lead-ers (along with point guard Lucas Lunt), and Shultz brings good

shooting from the small forward-shooting guard spot.

Among the Grade 11s, Marius Anghel brings physicality to the post position, playing with an edge and thriv-ing when the going gets tough.

Kayl Graydon is a high level field lacrosse player with athleticism that can translate to the court.

“He rebounds well and plays tough defence, He needs to work on getting to the right position on the floor.”

Johnson has players who can hit the out-side shot, with Rashad Mohammad the most lethal from three point land.

Akeem Williams brings wheels and hus-

tle as the fastest Storm player.

Other roster mem-bers are Jimmy Fooks, Matthew Warren and Cameron Betker.

“We have a tough schedule ahead of us as we play in the power-ful Fraser Valley East,” Johnson said. “We face some of the best teams in the province, but I am looking forward to the challenge to change the basketball dynam-ics at CSS — to build a tradition that every one of our students can be proud of.”

BC high school bas-ketball on the boys side can be followed online at bcboysbasketball.com. Stay tuned for an upcoming senior girls b-ball preview in the pages of the Progress.

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Ford Fiesta 1.0L, $15,999 + $1,500 for the 1.0L option; for an MSRP of $17,499Ford’s smallest engine available here in Canada sure packs a lot of punch. And considering it only weighs 98 kg when assembled, this 1.0L, 3-cylinder power-plant is pretty impressive. If you opt for this bite-sized engine, you’ll be getting 123 horsepower and 125 lb-ft of torque (148 lb-ft with the overboost). The Fiesta was designed and engineered in Europe so it isn’t bad to look at either.

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Mercedes-Benz GLA 250 4MATIC: MSRP $37,200 (AMG version is $50,500) Another vehicle that shone brightly is Mer-cedes-Benz’s GLA. The luxury compact crossover starts at under $40K but does so many things well. It has a hatchback, great styling and the fuel economy is quite good, too. I wouldn’t even need the AMG version to keep me happy. It’s just a stellar vehicle.

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