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Tuesday, July 18, 2023 - A strike breakthrough
July 18, 2023 | ☀ High 25C
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I’m back from a week’s vacation. I unplugged and took my kids up north to Mount Robson Provincial Park to camp with my brother and it was glorious!
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WORTH KNOWING
🌤 Local forecast: Langley | Chilliwack | Abbotsford | Hope
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NEWS
Union leaders urge bus drivers to accept deal
Buses have sat still in the Fraser Valley for more than three weeks. 📷 Joti Grewal
Union leaders for striking Fraser Valley bus drivers have recommended members accept a new contract, suggesting the ongoing transit dispute may soon reach its final destination.
The Current has obtained a copy of the union’s letter to members in which leaders spell out what comes next.
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Need to know
👉 A hiker was pulled from a ravine after falling nearly 50 feet near Cascade Falls in Mission [Mission Record]
🔥 The Davis Lake wildfire north of Mission is now about 150 hectares in size [Mission Record] / You can find the latest update here [BCWS]
🛴 Langley Township might regulate electric scooters (which are technically illegal), but will wait to hear from Mounties [Langley Advance Times]
👉 A retired wildlife control officer has written a book about dealing with predators in the Fraser Valley [Agassiz-Harrison Observer]
🚨 The victim of last week’s fatal stabbing in Mission has been identified [CTV]
🐱 The Cultus Lake campground where a cougar killed a dog has been re-opened [Chilliwack Progress]
🚔 Police seized 18 guns and 4,000 marijuana plants from a rural Abbotsford property [Abbotsford News]
🔥 Hope firefighters extinguished a quick-moving wildfire Sunday [Hope Standard]
🙂 DAILY SMILE: A man fired after rescuing a baby moose along the highway says he doesn’t regret stopping to save the calf [Mark Skage/Facebook]
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July 30: 11am-7pm
The Agenda
Carly Bouwman’s mural will be located on a Yale Road wall. | 📷 City of Chilliwack
New murals on deck for festival
Four more murals to be painted for this year’s Chilliwack Mural Festival look set for final sign-off from the city.
Both local and international artists will arrive to paint walls throughout the city this summer. A French mural artist from Marseille called Hengone will create a colourful geometric design that aims to illustrate “human movement, the chaos of life and love, and the stillness and power of the local mountains” at 9381 Mill St. (It will replace the current mural on the side of the building).
Jared Deck, a local artist, illustrator, and member of the Tzeachten First Nation will craft a mural in his contemporary Coast Salish art style on the wall of Unique Thrifting at 45873 Wellington Ave.
A street artist from Guangzhou, China, called SATR also has a mural proposed for this year’s festival. She atomizes spray paint to blend traditional western graffiti style and delicate eastern-style paintings for unique, smoky shapes. She will be painting at 1-45904 Victoria Ave.
Finally, local artist Carly Bouwman is planning a mural that will depict a “beautiful, peaceful and ethereal image of local endangered species.” She will be working on the side wall of Valley Cycle Locksmiths at 46275 Yale Rd.
Chilliwack council is set to approve the placement of the murals at its meeting Tuesday. The murals are in addition to three others approved by Chilliwack councillors two weeks ago. Originally, there were six paintings planned; the Chilliwack Mural Festival Committee recently added a seventh.
The designs for two new pump tracks and an update on water conservation in Chilliwack will also be on the table at the Chilliwack council meeting Tuesday afternoon.
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