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Monday, May 8, 2023 edition - How to save a river
Monday, May 8, 2023 | ⛈ High 19C | Forecast
Good morning!
Maintaining two languages is demanding. I grew up speaking Punjabi as a kid primarily because of my grandparents. Now that they are no longer around I find it challenging to keep my Punjabi language skills sharp. It’s the same for any skill: if you don’t use it eventually it will fade. I have suggested to some of my family in the past about how we should only converse in Punjabi, but for some reason it feels awkward. Do you speak more than one language? If so, how do you maintain proficiency in communicating in all those you speak?
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How to save a river
Volunteers are working to improve conditions of the Miami River. | Kayla MacInnis
Anyone spending time in Harrison Hot Springs has likely crossed paths with the Miami River—even if they may not have noticed it.
Cradled by verdant forest groves and the enveloping Cascade and Cheam mountain ranges, this little river carves its way from Agassiz through Harrison Hot Springs, flowing north and west until its water empties into Harrison Lake.
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Need to know
🐄 A Chilliwack councillor said a proposal to stop fossil fuel companies from sponsoring a conference for local politicians is like doing the same for the BC Dairy Association because cows fart [CBC]
🦉 A podcast examines how government can save Canada’s last spotted owls [CityNews]; The Current previously wrote about the return of the endangered species; read that story here [FVC]
😷 The BCCDC introduced a new counting system to account for reinfection of COVID-19; there were 175 hospital hospital admissions during the last week of April [CTV]
🚔 Kamloops RCMP mistakenly said they were searching for a convicted sex offender who breached bail conditions in Chilliwack; Mounties later retracted their news release because the man was already in custody [Chilliwack Progress]
👮🏻♂️ An Mission inmate has died; the man was convicted in the second-degree murder of his mom [Fraser Valley Today]
🚨 A group of people were captured on camera using axes, swords, and baseball bats, to smash vehicle windows and destroy other property at a home in central Abbotsford last month [Abbotsford police]
🏥 A breast health clinic and a CT scanner are coming to Chilliwack and Mission hospitals, respectively, the Fraser Valley Health Care Foundation announced [Fraser Valley Health Care Foundation]
✈️ WestJet pilots plan to picket at airports across the country Monday [Vancouver Sun]
🚓 Homicide investigators are searching for a suspect vehicle found in Langley that may be connected to a Surrey shooting [IHIT]
🚁 A motorcyclist was arrested in Abbotsford last month with the help of a RCMP helicopter after Langley Mounties clocked the driver travelling 180km over the speed limit [Aldergrove Star]
👮🏻 A Chilliwack sex offender charged with possession of child pornography will not go to jail and instead be required to participant in a treatment program [Chilliwack Progress]
🚔 Langley Mounties are investigating the origin of a threat of “mass slaughter” that prompted a one-hour lockdown of two schools Friday [Langley Advance Times]
🔴 Missing, murdered Indigenous women and girls were honoured in Abbotsford and communities across Canada during Red Dress Day on Friday [Global]
💰 Langley Township approved $1.3 million to proceeds with plans to widen 208 Street in Willoughby [Langley Advance Times]
🚓 Homemade weapons among other “unauthorized items” were uncovered at Matsqui prison following a stabbing incident last month [Abbotsford News]
❓ It is unclear what drew a large police presence on Skwah First Nation in Chilliwack Sunday [Fraser Valley Today]
🚦 Mission council gave the green light for ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft operating in the municipality [Mission Record]
🚫 Some Hope residents are landlocked on their property after the 2021 floods washed away road access [Hope Standard]
👮🏻♂️ A few members from a group allegedly caught shoplifting from a Mission mall Saturday were stopped by customers [Mission Record]
🗑 Clean up volunteers are raising concerns about debris washing into the Chilliwack and Vedder rivers [Fraser Valley Today]
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The Agenda
Several residents were issued a warning after an audit revealed their recycling was contaminated. | City of Abbotsford/Facebook
Abbotsford recyclers fail audit
Only a tiny proportion of Abbotsford recyclers are actually doing it right.
A recent audit of the recycling of 362 homes found that nearly 90% of all recycling was contaminated. Only 12% of the carts inspected were found to contain only those recyclables that should end up in the carts, according to a recent report to the city’s community, culture and environment advisory committee.
Of the homes surveyed, nearly two dozen residents’ recycling was so contaminated, they were handed formal warning letters. A second violation could lead to a ticket.
The city has been trying to encourage better compliance with its recycling rules. But residents and councillors in the past have noted that those rules significantly limit what recycling is actually accepted. Glass, foam packaging, plastic bags and more are all banned from curbside recycling. Instead, residents are expected to take them by hand to a recycling depot.
There has been some progress on that front, however, with Abbotsford now accepting rigid plastic, plastic wrap, and aluminium foil.
Firefighters given OK to help out elsewhere
Rural firefighters will continue to be allowed to go fight blazes elsewhere in the province.
The Fraser Valley Regional District again gave the green-light to firefighters in its electoral areas to heed the call when the province asks for more resources to protect structures from summer wildfires.
The Popkum and Chilliwack River Fire Departments will send crews and equipment when needed to other parts of the province. To make up any resulting local shortfall, other Fraser Valley rural fire departments will lend a hand in those areas, as needed.
It won’t be the first time Popkum and Chilliwack River crews fight fires in the interior, and their chiefs say the experience has served their local communities well. Previous deployments have increased crews’ skills, experience, and confidence, according to a recent report by FVRD staff.
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