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Thursday - April 24, 2025 - Chilliwack approves new multi-use paths
Grace Kennedy
April 24, 2025
☀ High 21C
Good morning!
My kids have built a house. It’s in the living room, made out of blankets, toy boxes, chairs, and the coffee table. There is a TV room, a bathroom, a playroom, and a bedroom for one of their stuffed animals. It is elaborately and wonderfully built. It has also turned the living room into a huge mess.
Each night, before she falls asleep, my daughter begs me to leave it up one more day. And each night, I acquiesce. But it is not for altruistic reasons—I just really don’t want to clean it up. Maybe tomorrow I’ll make the kids break the house down and put it all away. Tonight though, I think I’m just going to sit on the couch, surrounded by toys, and be glad there is one less chore I have to do.
– Grace
News
Abbotsford—South Langley answers
The Conservative Party’s choice of a candidate in the riding of Abbotsford—South Langley is making the electoral district’s campaign one of the most unpredictable in recent memory.
To give voters a sense of the options available, we asked each of the Abbotsford—South Langley candidates to participate in a virtual interview on local issues. Independent Mike de Jong, Liberal Kevin Gillies, Green Melissa Snazell, and Aeriol Alderking of the People’s Party all took part.
Conservative Sukhman Gill and the NDP’s Dharmasena Yakandawela did not participate. Yakandawela and Gill also refused an invitation to the Abbotsford Chamber of Commerce’s all-candidates meeting.
You can find interviews with the candidates below.
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Need to Know
🚔 IHIT is investigating after a woman’s body was found near the train tracks by Knight Road in Chilliwack Tuesday [Chilliwack Progress]
📹 Abbotsford Police will begin wearing body cameras this May as part of a six-month pilot [Abbotsford News]
👩🦼 Langley disability advocate and founder of Langley Pos-Abilities Zosia Ettenberg has died at the age of 79 [Langley Advance Times]
📱 The City of Mission will no longer use the social media platform X, saying the owner’s attacks on Canadian sovereignty triggered the change [City of Mission]
🚓 Abbotsford police are asking for help identifying a woman who allegedly robbed an apartment while the resident was asleep [Abbotsford News]
🥅 Two youth soccer clubs have merged in Chilliwack [Fraser Valley Today]
⚽ Vancouver Rise is back on the pitch at Swangard Stadium May 5! Be there to make history and watch women’s professional soccer rise.*
🎬 Come to MTM at BC Place: activities, hotdog combo, The Wild Robot. Donate tickets for a family who wouldn't be able to attend without your support!*
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🗳 Election 2025
The federal election campaign continues until election day on Monday, April 28. Find everything you need to know—including where to vote—by visiting one of our local election hubs:
You can find our interviews with candidates from each major party here: John Aldag (Liberal) | Melissa Snazell (Green) | Brad Vis (Conservative) | Teri Westerby (NDP)
The latest
👉 If you applied for a mail-in ballot, but haven’t sent it yet, you should return it in-person to an Elections Canada office; Elections Canada is still waiting for 5,000 special ballots from Fraser Valley residents [Elections Canada] / You can find a list of local Elections Canada offices in our election hub [FVC]
👉 More than one million voters in BC already cast a ballot in advance polls [Global News] / You can compare the numbers to previous elections here [Elections Canada]
👉 With formerly safe BC ridings now up for grabs, the futures of the NDP and the Green Party are at stake [CTV]
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The Agenda
Chilliwack is planning improvements for a number of roads in the city, including McIntosh Drive, which will see new crosswalks and pathways. 📷 City of Chilliwack
Chilliwack moving forward on 1.4km of multi-use paths
The City of Chilliwack has approved $2.4 million in new pathway improvements along the city’s Rail Trail.
The upgrades include three-metre wide paths connecting the Valley Rail Trail on Hocking Avenue, McIntosh Avenue and Knight Road. They also include curb and sidewalk replacements, along with street trees and lights, on Yale Road from the new breezeway to Nowell Street. The paths will extend Chilliwack’s Valley Rail Trail into the downtown area.
The Knight Road works also include new railway flashing lights, bells, and gate signals at the SRY crossing near Boulevard Lane. Transport Canada and Technical Safety BC both introduced new railway crossing regulations within the last 12 years, and all crossings have to be upgraded to meet the new standards by 2028.
(The upgrades are intended to increase safety at the crossing. The Southern Railway of BC tracks have seen fewer deaths than the CN line, whose crossings are also being upgraded to meet the new standards. You can read more about fatalities on that line here.)
Construction on most of the projects is expected to begin by the spring and be completed by the fall. Work on the Knight Road railway crossing specifically is expected to begin in May and be completed by the summer.
SPONSORED BY THE LIBERAL PARTY OF CANADA- CHILLIWACK-HOPE RIDING
Meet Zeeshan Khan, Liberal Candidate for Chilliwack-Hope
Zeeshan lives with his family in Chilliwack, and is actively engaged in many community initiatives. As a passionate leader and maxillofacial surgeon, he has spent many years in the healthcare system, and wants to serve as the MP for the community he lives in. Zeeshan wants to help build a stronger, brighter, and more inclusive Canada.
Classifieds
AMPEX 2025 / 32355 Mouat Drive / April 27 9:30-2:30 [LINK]
Annual FVC members can find a link to submit their annual classified in the weekly FVC Insiders Edition. Become a FVC member here.
🗓 Things to do
Earth Day: Langley City hosts an Earth Day celebration on Saturday at Douglas Park. Get free Indigenous plants, enjoy workshops on leaf imprinting and container gardening, and try out an e-bike. Details online.
Car show: The Vintage Car Club of Canada hosts its Country Car Show at Aldergrove Secondary on Sunday starting at 9am. The show is free for spectators. Proceeds from entering vintage cars go to support the school's automotive department. Details online.
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