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Tuesday - Jan. 21, 2025 - Chadsey Lake trail improvements coming
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Over the weekend, a friend and I came up with a quick-fire way to stave off future colds and flus: kindergarten teachers. Sure, we may have absolutely no medical training or scientific basis for our musings. And yes, the idea seems straight out of a a sci-fi dystopia in some Apple+ series. But when has that stopped someone from baselessly speculating on the internet?
Our modest proposal is based around the ongoing survival and health of kindergarten teachers. How do they do that? How do you spend five days a week with 18 snivelling, coughing, and booger-sharing children and not end up in a constant state of ill health? Any parent of such a child is constantly sick, as Grace can attest. The only valid explanation for the teachersâ survival is that they have developed super-human immune systems based on years of exposure to the least-hygienic humans in existence.
There must be a way to use those immune systems to benefit the larger population. Look, Iâm not saying we force kindergarten teachers to donate their blood so it can be sold on the black market to the highest bidder, raising money for Canadaâs financially strapped education and health systems. BuuuuutâŚ.
â Tyler
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Langley Township borrowed $75 million to buy land⌠somewhere
The Township of Langley has approved a $75 million loan to buy âstrategic landâ somewhere in Langley. đˇď¸ Josef Hanus/Shutterstock; Grace Kennedy
The Township of Langley is set to borrow nearly $75 million dollars to buy âstrategic landâ for the municipalityâalthough itâs not clear exactly which land the township plans to purchase.
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â A historic airplane flew (via a crane) to a new location at Langleyâs airport [Cloverdale Reporter]
đş Bricklayer Brewing in downtown Chilliwack will close at the end of the month [Bricklayer Brewing/Facebook]
đ¨ Abbotsford police say theyâve busted dozens of impaired drivers over the first three weeks of January [Abbotsford News]
đ Kent council has been asked to approve the municipalityâs first cannabis store [Agassiz-Harrison Observer]
đ A Hope cement-maker wants to increase its gravel operations [Hope Standard]
đ Chilliwack has no extreme-weather shelter beds, leaving advocates to ask residents to assist homeless people in need [Chilliwack Progress]
đ Langley Cityâs mayor is asking for a mediator to help settle a dispute about policing with the Township [Langley Advance Times]
â Two men have been charged with a 2024 stabbing at an Abbotsford prison [Abbotsford News]
đ A Chilliwack woman who operates a Ukrainian restaurant is retiring [Fraser Valley Today]
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The Agenda
The Fraser Valley Regional District is planning to spend more than $100,000 to improve the trail to Chadsey Lake on Sumas Mountain. đˇ Sebastien Marie/Shutterstock
Chadsey Lake trail set for upgrades
From trail improvements to better outhouses, the Fraser Valleyâs regional parks are slated for a variety of upgrades and improvements over the next year.
The Fraser Valley Regional Districtâs proposed budget lays out a range of improvements and maintenance work for the coming years in FVRD-run parks. The budget has yet to be adopted, but generally doesnât change much after staff present it to the FVRD board in public for the first time. The suggested new projects include:
$125,000 for upgrades to the Chadsey Lake Trail
$28,000 for better pit toilets at Matsqui Trail Regional Park
$20,000 to repair eroded trails on Elk and Cheam mountains (as part of $100,000 worth of work over the next five years)
$185,000 to maintain or repair the boardwalk on Cheam Lake
Hopeâs arena is also set to get a $210,000 electric zamboni.
The FVRDâs board members will discuss the proposed budget at a meeting on Thursday. You can view the proposed budget here.
Feds say flood insurance program still coming in 2025
Last week, we wrote about the federal governmentâs lack of tangible progress on policies meant to mitigate future flood damage. We also reported that the Insurance Board of Canada, a lobbying group for Canadian insurance companies, was unhappy that funding for a new flood insurance program was not included in the governmentâs fall economic statement. The federal government didnât respond to our requests for comment until yesterday, when a spokesperson wrote that Ottawa still plans to establish the program in 2025.
âThe work to stand up a national flood insurance program is fully resourced through funding decisions in Budget 2023 and Budget 2024 and progress continues as intended to deliver a program for Canadians in high-risk areas that is fair for taxpayers in 2025,â the spokesperson wrote.
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