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A good weekend ahead in the Fraser Valley. Downtown Langley is hosting Fork & Finger on Saturday — a self-guided tasting event with restaurant samples and a chance to win $2,500 in Downtown Dollars. Over in Chilliwack, Mountainview Harley-Davidson is throwing a block party the same day. And Sunday, the Hope Farmers Market is back at Memorial Park.
– Emily
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News & Features
The UFV researcher who cured her own chronic pain
Photo: University of the Fraser Valley
For more than 10 years, Dr. Cynthia Thomson lived with chronic pain that affected every aspect of her daily life. Today, she's an associate professor of kinesiology at the University of the Fraser Valley — and she's leading a national effort to modernize how clinicians across Canada understand and treat it.
Thomson's work centres on a shift in thinking about pain itself. The traditional biomedical model focuses on physical causes — something pinched, something structurally wrong. The biopsychosocial model, which Thomson advocates for, recognizes that biological, psychological, and social factors all shape how pain is experienced. It's a distinction that sounds academic, but for the one in five Canadians living with chronic pain, it has real consequences.
"Unfortunately, many are recommended sub-optimal treatments," Thomson says.
Her own turning point came during the pandemic, when she lost access to physical treatments and turned to the scientific literature instead.
Need to Know
🛵 Two Mission teens on illegal electric vehicles fled police on Cedar Street before being identified and fined over $700 each for offences including speeding, no licence, no insurance, and failing to stop for police. [Vancouver Sun]
🥾 Two North Vancouver residents walked from Grouse Mountain to Chilliwack in 26 hours, documenting the entire journey online. [CBC News]
⚠️ A known high-risk sex offender was arrested twice in Langley within five days — once for trespassing in a backyard in Willoughby and again for breaking into an apartment on 64 Avenue. He remains in custody. [CTV News]
🗑️ Abbotsford police are investigating after videos circulated online showing a woman dumping garbage into Mill Lake and near Bluejay Elementary School. [CTV News]
💔 A man drowned at Cultus Lake on August 20 — the second drowning at the lake in less than two weeks, following the death of a 13-year-old girl on August 10. [Fraser Valley Today]
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🗓 Things to Do
Fork & Finger in Downtown Langley: A self-guided tasting event at McBurney Plaza on August 22, with a passport to sample dishes from local restaurants and a chance to win $2,500 in Downtown Dollars.
Rock the Block Party at Mountainview Harley-Davidson: A full day of motorcycles, live entertainment, food, vendors, and family-friendly activities at Mountainview Harley-Davidson in Chilliwack on August 22.
Hope Farmers Market: The Hope Farmers Market runs every Sunday at Memorial Park, with local growers, makers, bakers, and artists.
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