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"Bob Christie",
"Associated Press"
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1:16 Harnessing the firenado
3:49 'I'm a white male, and I am prejudiced': Caller asks black TV guest how to change
3:21 Officer's heartfelt talk with crowd at standoff brings tears, applause
1:58 Mother of baby born with Zika complications shares heartbreaking ordeal
1:02 Happy 100th birthday, National Parks Service
1:52 Marines show what happens when you get pepper sprayed
0:53 Obama declares land from Burt's Bees co-founder a national monument
1:32 Clinton, Timberlake hit photo booth; Pence talks media bias — Election Rewind
1:05 If Trump and Clinton could turn back time, would they change the media narrative? Election Rewind | http://www.islandpacket.com/news/nation-world/national/article98762437.html | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.islandpacket.com/e032bced6c7301181b4a34ae17bebbb56e4b60fea26173157d87151996917190.json |
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"Emily Wagster Pettus",
"Rebecca Santana",
"Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-28T00:46:11 | null | 2016-08-27T20:12:00 | A man suspected in the slayings of two nuns found dead in their Mississippi home confessed to the killings, a sheriff said Saturday, in the latest twist to a crime that has horrified people in the small communities where the women served. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.islandpacket.com%2Fnews%2Fnation-world%2Fnational%2Farticle98293077.html.json | http://www.mcclatchy-wires.com/wire_photos/3kvx22/picture98085482/ALTERNATES/LANDSCAPE_1140/Nuns%20Killed.JPEG | en | null | Sheriff: Man confesses in killings of 2 Mississippi nuns | null | null | www.islandpacket.com | A man suspected in the slayings of two nuns found dead in their Mississippi home confessed to the killings, a sheriff said Saturday, in the latest twist to a crime that has horrified people in the small communities where the women served. | http://www.islandpacket.com/news/nation-world/national/article98293077.html | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.islandpacket.com/be834016b346b211ce2157f48e2db764c2f8ccfefa95d0cb54a169eecb69f77d.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T20:46:22 | null | 2016-08-28T15:54:00 | Ivory Marcella Newell-Maize, 28, of Okatie and mother of Ivoriona, Sharionna, Zharionah, and Nolji, died Monday, Aug. 22, 2016, at Beaufort Memorial Hospital. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.islandpacket.com%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fdeath-notices%2Farticle98467367.html.json | http://www.islandpacket.com/static/images/islandpacket/facebook.jpg | en | null | Ivory Newell-Maize | null | null | www.islandpacket.com | null | http://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/death-notices/article98467367.html | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.islandpacket.com/32b99032e43acdcfa830606b0d4f535c0af2fa3a1584da0e02d8b3c6d9c98894.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-29T02:46:32 | null | 2016-08-28T22:27:00 | The most decorated Olympian of all time, swimmer Michael Phelps, offered a name to go with his famous Phelps face Sunday night and it's one word: Future. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.islandpacket.com%2Fentertainment%2Fcelebrities%2Farticle98521117.html.json | http://www.mcclatchy-wires.com/wire_photos/8ehh4t/picture98521112/ALTERNATES/LANDSCAPE_1140/2016%20MTV%20Video%20Music%20Awards%20-%20Arrivals.JPEG | en | null | Michael Phelps put a name to his famous Phelps face: Future | null | null | www.islandpacket.com | The most decorated Olympian of all time, swimmer Michael Phelps, offered a name to go with his famous Phelps face Sunday night and it's one word: Future. | http://www.islandpacket.com/entertainment/celebrities/article98521117.html | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.islandpacket.com/969c6476e59b159f9a4a6fc791aa8715f09417c80573b7529d90c7ed3ad0fa36.json |
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"Domingo Ramirez Jr."
] | 2016-08-28T18:46:18 | null | 2016-08-28T14:24:00 | The man was found in the ceiling of Smoothie King in Alliance Town Center, Fort Worth police said | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.islandpacket.com%2Fnews%2Fnation-world%2Fnational%2Farticle98458812.html.json | http://pics.mcclatchyinteractive.com/news/nation-world/national/4kgerw/picture98458807/ALTERNATES/LANDSCAPE_1140/john%20case2 | en | null | Here’s why hiding from a cartel in the ceiling of a Smoothie King is a bad idea | null | null | www.islandpacket.com | 3:11 Pet pig's botched butchering leads to arrest Pause
1:35 Duke football players become "big brothers" to boy in hospital
3:49 'I'm a white male, and I am prejudiced': Caller asks black TV guest how to change
1:18 Miami police officer proposes to girlfriend during award ceremony
0:34 Jasmine Femia guilty of murder and conspiracy
0:49 Degras' family reacts to Femia's guilty verdict
1:14 Dog helps rescue man trapped in hole
1:25 Congressman Clyburn gives chilling advice about police to his grandson | http://www.islandpacket.com/news/nation-world/national/article98458812.html | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.islandpacket.com/42a595f56e26d2b9af836328fbc3d9b1a94032f796cdd2953edb8ac305b788c6.json |
[
"Liz Farrell"
] | 2016-08-26T12:58:26 | null | 2016-08-24T19:32:00 | Comedian Marc Price, who played Skippy on “Family Ties,” headlines this week at the Comedy Club of Hilton Head in Shelter Cove. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.islandpacket.com%2Fopinion%2Fopn-columns-blogs%2Fliz-farrell%2Farticle97688062.html.json | http://www.islandpacket.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/liz-farrell/u0mm1i/picture97688057/ALTERNATES/LANDSCAPE_1140/marc%20green%20background%20green%20shirt | en | null | Marc Price, Skippy from 'Family Ties,' to perform standup on Hilton Head | null | null | www.islandpacket.com | Columnist and senior editor Liz Farrell has lived in the Lowcountry for 12 years, but grew up in Brookline, Mass., just outside of Boston. She graduated with a degree in political science from Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, and enjoys the beach, reading and people with contagious laughs. She pronounces all her R's. | http://www.islandpacket.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/liz-farrell/article97688062.html | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.islandpacket.com/8f45ae6a2aa194ccb39c0b168d8929587d3b87aee1f7412bdba92c18f25d4b51.json |
[
"Posted Stephen Fastenau"
] | 2016-08-29T20:46:27 | null | 2016-08-29T16:35:00 | The St. Helena Branch Library of the Beaufort County Library closed at 5 p.m. Monday due to an air conditioning outage. The library hopes to reopen by Thursday. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.islandpacket.com%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fcommunity%2Fbeaufort-news%2Farticle98661452.html.json | http://www.islandpacket.com/static/images/beaufortgazette/facebook.jpg | en | null | St. Helena library closed due to air conditioning outage | null | null | www.islandpacket.com | null | http://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/community/beaufort-news/article98661452.html | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.islandpacket.com/f0ee34f5e47e8eaf9caeab18b009bccde1a8eca0009260830ae988183d3e554b.json |
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"Chuck Barney",
"East Bay Times"
] | 2016-08-28T08:46:13 | null | 2016-08-28T04:00:00 | DON'T MISS: MTV Video Music Awards - Adele, Drake, Kanye West, Justin Bieber and Britney Spears are all expected to be in the house for this year's ceremony, which is being held at Madison Square Garden for the first time. But unless Kanye does something ridiculous again, the night's real star figures to be Beyonce. Queen Bey leads everyone with 11 nominations, including video of the year for her bold and visually striking | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.islandpacket.com%2Fentertainment%2Ftv%2Farticle98431657.html.json | http://www.islandpacket.com/static/images/islandpacket/facebook.jpg | en | null | Around the remote: Chuck Barney's TV picks for Aug. 28-Sept. 3 | null | null | www.islandpacket.com | DON'T MISS: MTV Video Music Awards - Adele, Drake, Kanye West, Justin Bieber and Britney Spears are all expected to be in the house for this year's ceremony, which is being held at Madison Square Garden for the first time. But unless Kanye does something ridiculous again, the night's real star figures to be Beyonce. Queen Bey leads everyone with 11 nominations, including video of the year for her bold and visually striking "Formation." 9 p.m., MTV. | http://www.islandpacket.com/entertainment/tv/article98431657.html | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.islandpacket.com/7e1ec9f5fc29fbabbad248b60112f4b42b957c6ca0c3cb1683c95b6c96e0641f.json |
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[
"Jeff Donn",
"Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-27T22:46:11 | null | 2016-08-27T15:49:00 | The crowdfunding sites operate outside traditional charitable circles and often beyond the reach of government regulation. Appeals can be created in minutes by almost anyone and shared around the world. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.islandpacket.com%2Flatest-news%2Farticle98342247.html.json | http://pics.mcclatchyinteractive.com/news/nation-world/national/p1hdhv/picture98342232/ALTERNATES/LANDSCAPE_1140/Nightclub%20Shooting%20Charities | en | null | Scams and waste loom after millions were donated to Orlando shooting victims | null | null | www.islandpacket.com | null | http://www.islandpacket.com/latest-news/article98342247.html | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.islandpacket.com/dc85ffbeecd1ac14bd581cf6f5005a3f9ce6e764916c3daa293a3fc3021e8df5.json |
[
"Staff Reports"
] | 2016-08-31T14:46:56 | null | 2016-08-31T08:57:00 | The Eagles put away May River in four sets to run their record to 3-0 on the young season. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.islandpacket.com%2Fsports%2Fhigh-school%2Farticle98993062.html.json | http://www.islandpacket.com/sports/high-school/oslbqk/picture98999872/ALTERNATES/LANDSCAPE_1140/BeaufortHighLogo.jpg | en | null | High school sports, Aug. 31: Beaufort remains unbeaten in volleyball | null | null | www.islandpacket.com | null | http://www.islandpacket.com/sports/high-school/article98993062.html | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.islandpacket.com/e409b7c6bcf6f1d5b9e9f32b3609e1242c6edec9684182ee3d96614ce8724bac.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-29T00:46:28 | null | 2016-08-28T20:12:00 | Authorities say an off-duty police officer shot and killed a man who tried to take a gun away from him in New Jersey's capital city. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.islandpacket.com%2Fnews%2Fnation-world%2Fnational%2Farticle98441497.html.json | http://www.islandpacket.com/static/images/islandpacket/facebook.jpg | en | null | Authorities: Off-duty cop kills man who tried to take gun | null | null | www.islandpacket.com | Authorities say an off-duty police officer shot and killed a man who tried to take a gun away from him in New Jersey's capital city. | http://www.islandpacket.com/news/nation-world/national/article98441497.html | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.islandpacket.com/91c5ec1e6e326217d82a85d3612cd45ea8fb3a6f57d3c78a8f69ed86e210909f.json |
[
"Jerome Pugmire",
"Ap Sports Writer"
] | 2016-08-28T14:46:23 | null | 2016-08-28T10:37:00 | Nico Rosberg won an incident-packed Belgian Grand Prix featuring a chaotic start, wild overtaking, a heavy crash, safety cars and a red flag. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.islandpacket.com%2Fentertainment%2Fcelebrities%2Farticle98440232.html.json | http://www.mcclatchy-wires.com/wire_photos/u7vrko/picture98440212/ALTERNATES/LANDSCAPE_1140/Belgium%20F1%20GP%20Auto%20Racing.JPEG | en | null | Rosberg wins eventful Belgian GP, closes gap on Hamilton | null | null | www.islandpacket.com | 1:27
Rascal Flatts star sings with his son on Hilton Head Island. And it's adorable. | http://www.islandpacket.com/entertainment/celebrities/article98440232.html | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.islandpacket.com/744ab5820409cf275029fa3e253cccbc23c713efcf85fb72dfff075255234f04.json |
[
"David Lauderdale"
] | 2016-08-30T16:46:35 | null | 2016-08-30T12:08:00 | At Jody’s Fine Foods, she was a friendly face for the working class during Hilton Head Island’s boom years. Today, she is in Beaufort Memorial Hospital asking for prayer. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.islandpacket.com%2Fopinion%2Fopn-columns-blogs%2Fdavid-lauderdale%2Farticle98800847.html.json | http://www.islandpacket.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/david-lauderdale/n06l4i/picture98800842/ALTERNATES/LANDSCAPE_1140/Caskey_Jody10091996%201 | en | null | Hilton Head icon Jody Caskey in critical condition | null | null | www.islandpacket.com | null | http://www.islandpacket.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/david-lauderdale/article98800847.html | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.islandpacket.com/bc3808f53f80ca6e92c04736974d335ee417cedb9b8439792e20edb08423391e.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-28T18:46:19 | null | 2016-08-28T14:27:00 | Forecasters are watching a tropical storm as it cuts an uncertain path toward Hawaii, potentially coinciding with a visit by President Barack Obama. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.islandpacket.com%2Fnews%2Fnation-world%2Fnational%2Farticle98448192.html.json | http://www.islandpacket.com/static/images/islandpacket/facebook.jpg | en | null | Storm may head toward Hawaii, coinciding with Obama visit | null | null | www.islandpacket.com | 3:11 Pet pig's botched butchering leads to arrest Pause
1:35 Duke football players become "big brothers" to boy in hospital
3:49 'I'm a white male, and I am prejudiced': Caller asks black TV guest how to change
1:18 Miami police officer proposes to girlfriend during award ceremony
0:34 Jasmine Femia guilty of murder and conspiracy
0:49 Degras' family reacts to Femia's guilty verdict
1:14 Dog helps rescue man trapped in hole
1:25 Congressman Clyburn gives chilling advice about police to his grandson | http://www.islandpacket.com/news/nation-world/national/article98448192.html | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.islandpacket.com/6e8d515272795f02b53935fdc27255c6c2f3f7934bb2ab06411fdee61cec9495.json |
[
"Brad L. Bloom",
"Special To The Packet Gazette"
] | 2016-08-30T10:46:36 | null | 2016-08-30T06:02:00 | In Puritan New England, the church was the center of life. Sermons alone could last to up to three hours. Compare that to the relatively brief services of today. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.islandpacket.com%2Fliving%2Freligion%2Ffaith-in-action%2Farticle98763652.html.json | http://www.islandpacket.com/living/religion/faith-in-action/psnlch/picture98763647/ALTERNATES/LANDSCAPE_1140/Bloom_Brad | en | null | Think today’s church services are too long? Try being a Puritan | null | null | www.islandpacket.com | 1:40 World Youth Day: We welcome the pope Pause
0:57 This is the healing water
1:28 Video: Calif. Muslim girl teased for her hijab by teachers
1:09 Beaufort's Tabernacle Baptist Church celebrates its 153rd anniversary
1:37 'By Our Love' service at Tabernacle Baptist Church | http://www.islandpacket.com/living/religion/faith-in-action/article98763652.html | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.islandpacket.com/d013e8b238308004eeb64919410a63d38fbec5f169a9b183d95c66761e96dbbd.json |
[
"Lindsay Wise"
] | 2016-08-30T20:46:45 | null | 2016-08-30T15:58:00 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.islandpacket.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitics-government%2Farticle98853992.html.json | http://pics.mcclatchyinteractive.com/news/politics-government/vapyaa/picture98855537/ALTERNATES/LANDSCAPE_1140/AP_389491841471 | en | null | Your lawmaker’s Facebook page could be a scam | null | null | www.islandpacket.com | 1:47 Graham says Clinton 'most flawed' candidate and Trump is own worst enemy Pause
1:32 Clinton, Timberlake hit photo booth; Pence talks media bias — Election Rewind
1:05 If Trump and Clinton could turn back time, would they change the media narrative? Election Rewind
1:28 Have we now seen all of Trump? — Election Rewind
1:42 Trump reshuffles campaign staff — Election rewind
1:27 Kaine taunts Trump on tax returns — Election Rewind
1:08 Trump talks about his plans for Guantánamo in exclusive interview
1:21 Trump calls Obama 'founder of ISIS' — Election Rewind
1:27 Kaine taunts Trump on tax returns - Election Rewind
1:48 Trump on taxes and another t-word?! It's the Election Rewind | http://www.islandpacket.com/news/politics-government/article98853992.html | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.islandpacket.com/5a48e1c3d91ec7d434386b5c7b735a28e4032ead7cccc82137f9e7f976e72005.json |
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"Ian Deitch",
"Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-30T10:46:34 | null | 2016-08-30T06:32:00 | Palestinian authorities are silencing dissent by cracking down on free speech and abusing local journalists and activists critical of their policies, a leading international human rights group said Tuesday. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.islandpacket.com%2Fnews%2Fnation-world%2Fworld%2Farticle98764227.html.json | http://www.mcclatchy-wires.com/wire_photos/x5a8il/picture98764222/ALTERNATES/LANDSCAPE_1140/Mideast%20Palestinians%20Silencing%20Dissent.JPEG | en | null | Human Rights Watch: Palestinians abuse media, activists | null | null | www.islandpacket.com | Palestinian authorities are silencing dissent by cracking down on free speech and abusing local journalists and activists critical of their policies, a leading international human rights group said Tuesday. | http://www.islandpacket.com/news/nation-world/world/article98764227.html | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.islandpacket.com/a92f688c2b977d0ceaa2169598eb98f7086f17eafa0e164e18133c5037770fe7.json |
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"The Associated Press"
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"Kristie Rieken",
"Ap Sports Writer"
] | 2016-08-28T02:46:11 | null | 2016-08-27T22:27:00 | Rookie Alex Bregman homered and had three RBIs to back seven solid innings by Dallas Keuchel and lead the Houston Astros over the Tampa Bay Rays 6-2 on Saturday night. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.islandpacket.com%2Fsports%2Farticle98405992.html.json | http://www.mcclatchy-wires.com/wire_photos/hrc2c7/picture98405987/ALTERNATES/LANDSCAPE_1140/Rays%20Astros%20Baseball.JPEG | en | null | Bregman homers, Keuchel solid to help Astros over Rays 6-2 | null | null | www.islandpacket.com | Rookie Alex Bregman homered and had three RBIs to back seven solid innings by Dallas Keuchel and lead the Houston Astros over the Tampa Bay Rays 6-2 on Saturday night. | http://www.islandpacket.com/sports/article98405992.html | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.islandpacket.com/1084ceb1bb1a49e2ed9c2f9f272a3a63b49a979c10fac91f6d3d9e80b63042d5.json |
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"Melissa Murphy",
"Ap Sports Writer"
] | 2016-08-29T06:46:30 | null | 2016-08-29T02:36:00 | Since Christina McHale won a first-set tiebreaker against her idol Serena Williams at Wimbledon last month, she's played three tournaments and World Team Tennis to prepare for the U.S. Open. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.islandpacket.com%2Fsports%2Farticle98537647.html.json | http://www.islandpacket.com/static/images/islandpacket/facebook.jpg | en | null | After a set off Serena, McHale aims for US Open success | null | null | www.islandpacket.com | 0:46 Beaufort rolls at Battery Creek Pause
2:05 Jobs of NASCAR: Meet a NASCAR hauler driver and tour the 'storage space on wheels'
1:11 Can you put into words what it means to be a Gamecocks fan?
1:19 Passion for kicking drives this girl to varsity football
0:41 Football highlights: Hilton Head Christian vs. John Paul II
3:26 Surveillance footage from the night US swimmers allege they were robbed in Rio
2:52 Simone Biles is the world's best gymnast
0:20 Hilton Head High Football Preview: Bryce Singleton
1:02 Ridgeland-Hardeeville Football Preview: Zion Wilson
0:39 Thomas Heyward Football Preview: Justin Davis | http://www.islandpacket.com/sports/article98537647.html | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.islandpacket.com/10b1d922af80c76e3d82b35d8ac325b387ff4af2cf7b3f0ee169cc8dc5e48724.json |
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"Kate Irby",
"Kirby Mcclatchy.Com"
] | 2016-08-29T12:46:26 | null | 2016-08-29T08:38:00 | The disgraced ex-congressman, who is married to the vice chairwoman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, has reportedly been sexting a Donald Trump supporter, even sending a suggestive picture with his toddler son in bed with him. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.islandpacket.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitics-government%2Farticle98548182.html.json | http://pics.mcclatchyinteractive.com/news/politics-government/27ss8y/picture98548177/ALTERNATES/LANDSCAPE_1140/AP_16208809948779 | en | null | Ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner caught up in sexting scandal again | null | null | www.islandpacket.com | null | http://www.islandpacket.com/news/politics-government/article98548182.html | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.islandpacket.com/f846f4411f6e5591af6694b007623b8c4a0c917526f8871026bfb380e2b1b7d6.json |
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"Rocky Barker"
] | 2016-08-26T13:00:14 | null | 2016-08-25T22:10:00 | The Wilks brothers have been buying up land in the West and reportedly have closed access to local residents for hunting and recreation. Now, they’ve apparently purchased 172,000 acres of timberland in Southern Idaho. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.islandpacket.com%2Fopinion%2Farticle97983912.html.json | http://pics.mcclatchyinteractive.com/opinion/4zdn2o/picture97983907/ALTERNATES/LANDSCAPE_1140/banks%20trees | en | null | Do Texas billionaire brothers now own a big chunk of Southern Idaho? | null | null | www.islandpacket.com | 0:58 Future bride finds the perfect gown, but won't wear it at her wedding Pause
0:31 Chefs tell: Passing notes in retirement
0:47 Master seamstress on Lady's Island
0:35 'Thank you for bringing my friend': Elderly woman gets special visitor
0:17 Farrell and her dog work on trick for movie part
1:53 Ohio State football team's inspiration visits Hilton Head Island
1:16 Trina Lucido promotes creativity by creating a coloring journal
0:41 'You never know how much time you've got left.'
1:05 Pocket Full of Sunshine sponsors Fun in the Sun for Everyone
1:25 Feeling insecure in an electronic junk mail age | http://www.islandpacket.com/opinion/article97983912.html | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.islandpacket.com/d4345064298b1b7efccfdebf3d8a82469be44db33886d840f7384b834e63ea39.json |
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"The Associated Press"
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1:14 Father who lost son to amoeba: 'Stay the hell out of the water'
1:03 3 ways to protect yourself from Zika
0:35 Business is booming at Bloom at Bluffton
0:36 Brain-eating amoeba: What you need to know
0:35 Hilton Head Hospital's new $2 million '3T' MRI
1:04 Do you need a nap?
0:40 Republican Senator Tom Davis' push to legalize medical marijuana
1:47 What's your 'eating style', and how does it affect your health?
3:39 What is autism? | http://www.islandpacket.com/news/health-care/article98744427.html | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.islandpacket.com/60840f59a9905c875b0ebb840bd05fa2030f772559d435debf3c2ce9276e732e.json |
[
"Sarah El Deeb",
"Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-28T12:46:13 | null | 2016-08-28T07:32:00 | Turkey-backed Syrian rebels seized a number of villages and towns from Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria on Sunday amid Turkish airstrikes and shelling that killed at least 35 people, mostly civilians, according to rebels and a monitoring group. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.islandpacket.com%2Fnews%2Fnation-world%2Fworld%2Farticle98433057.html.json | http://www.mcclatchy-wires.com/wire_photos/lu94le/picture98332777/ALTERNATES/LANDSCAPE_1140/484Turkey%20Syria.JPEG | en | null | Syrian rebels advance on Kurds as Turkish strikes kill 35 | null | null | www.islandpacket.com | Turkey-backed Syrian rebels seized a number of villages and towns from Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria on Sunday amid Turkish airstrikes and shelling that killed at least 35 people, mostly civilians, according to rebels and a monitoring group. | http://www.islandpacket.com/news/nation-world/world/article98433057.html | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.islandpacket.com/2490a656f3ee86bf36022677b6ed6f74a5364a848641be730af95148edd63aaa.json |
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"Mauricio Savarese",
"Peter Prengaman",
"Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-30T02:46:45 | null | 2016-08-29T22:17:00 | In a session less electric than expected, Brazil's suspended president proclaimed her innocence at her impeachment trial Monday, branding her vice president a | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.islandpacket.com%2Fnews%2Fnation-world%2Fworld%2Farticle98531422.html.json | http://www.mcclatchy-wires.com/wire_photos/9dhhy0/picture98531407/ALTERNATES/LANDSCAPE_1140/Brazil%20Political%20Crisis.JPEG | en | null | Brazil's president proclaims innocence at impeachment trial | null | null | www.islandpacket.com | In a session less electric than expected, Brazil's suspended president proclaimed her innocence at her impeachment trial Monday, branding her vice president a "usurper," calling the drive to oust her a "coup" and warning senators that history will judge them harshly if they oust a democratically elected leader on false charges. | http://www.islandpacket.com/news/nation-world/world/article98531422.html | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.islandpacket.com/46e0fe04a6f739bbd766587ba08a7455ed5abe5ef0e3016bc96075d82a715c8d.json |
[
"Joan Mcdonough"
] | 2016-08-29T22:46:32 | null | 2016-08-29T16:48:00 | A 26-year-old man was stabbed while walking down Parris Island Gateway around 11:50 p.m. Friday. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.islandpacket.com%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fcommunity%2Fbeaufort-news%2Farticle98666642.html.json | http://www.islandpacket.com/static/images/beaufortgazette/facebook.jpg | en | null | Man stabbed walking down Parris Island Gateway | null | null | www.islandpacket.com | null | http://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/community/beaufort-news/article98666642.html | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.islandpacket.com/e68f4dbd76c7607c2221ec019cb99ea55beb53cd0678f414fa1bf7d1ead5b9df.json |
[
"Posted Stephen Fastenau"
] | 2016-08-26T13:09:34 | null | 2016-08-24T17:04:00 | Jewelry and guns were among the items reported stolen in a series of burglaries Monday on Broad River Drive in Shell Point. The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the thefts. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.islandpacket.com%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fcommunity%2Fbeaufort-news%2Farticle97641427.html.json | http://www.islandpacket.com/static/images/beaufortgazette/facebook.jpg | en | null | Jewelry, guns among items stolen in series of Shell Point burglaries | null | null | www.islandpacket.com | null | http://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/community/beaufort-news/article97641427.html | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.islandpacket.com/a7e5da0f7e843f1b1bc998317b3f9f26106218e1ecad62c195daf8c24568e80d.json |
[
"Chris Erskine",
"Los Angeles Times"
] | 2016-08-30T08:46:37 | null | 2016-08-30T04:00:00 | It's late August and the dog needs a bath. Actually, he needs three baths. After his third bath, he needs to be rolled in powdered sugar. He'd still stink, but at least he'd be edible. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.islandpacket.com%2Fliving%2Ffamily%2Farticle98762662.html.json | http://www.islandpacket.com/static/images/islandpacket/facebook.jpg | en | null | Chris Erskine: A family trip that wasn't meant to be | null | null | www.islandpacket.com | It's late August and the dog needs a bath. Actually, he needs three baths. After his third bath, he needs to be rolled in powdered sugar. He'd still stink, but at least he'd be edible. | http://www.islandpacket.com/living/family/article98762662.html | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.islandpacket.com/c8cdbe42c4d72628bb02bb595507c2ee4ca56639780dac27cc623ac72e4db429.json |
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"Madison Iszler",
"Miszler Newsobserver.Com"
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3:11 Pet pig's botched butchering leads to arrest
1:18 Miami police officer proposes to girlfriend during award ceremony
0:46 Three Toco toucans hatch at the Fort Worth Zoo
0:43 Indiana state troopers lip sync ‘Summer Nights’ at state fair
1:05 Mom arrested for allowing son to drive golf cart at Bald Head
3:14 The Purple Heart
1:35 Taming the gator: How the experts learn to handle alligators | http://www.islandpacket.com/news/nation-world/national/article98615727.html | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.islandpacket.com/69dc3e3eae9b31034aab77c1749b8914304f060485518d76cf90f1872ef4491d.json |
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"Corneliu Rusnac",
"Associated Press"
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4:35 World's longest rail tunnel debuts in Switzerland
2:18 Obama lays a wreath at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
0:51 How baby rhinos sound when the milk runs out
0:23 Canadian PM Justin Trudeau challenges Obama, British royals to 'bring it' at Invictus Games
1:09 Canadian prime minister Trudeau geeks out over quantum computing
0:43 Amber Heard, Johnny Depp make super awkward apology video in Australia after guilty plea
0:59 Chester Zoo's new penguin chicks get weighed
2:24 Offshore corporations — The secret shell game
2:44 184-year-old tortoise finally gets a bath | http://www.islandpacket.com/news/nation-world/world/article98312422.html | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.islandpacket.com/53f160722e8c12286168438c62d4e21238f079ae6f6e1944bee9f985ddfa0332.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-29T00:46:17 | null | 2016-08-28T20:17:00 | The Canadian government is setting up a third-party investigation after DNA evidence indicated two men from a northern Manitoba indigenous community were switched at birth. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.islandpacket.com%2Fnews%2Fnation-world%2Fworld%2Farticle98508402.html.json | http://www.islandpacket.com/static/images/islandpacket/facebook.jpg | en | null | Canadian government sets up probe of switched at birth case | null | null | www.islandpacket.com | The Canadian government is setting up a third-party investigation after DNA evidence indicated two men from a northern Manitoba indigenous community were switched at birth. | http://www.islandpacket.com/news/nation-world/world/article98508402.html | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.islandpacket.com/c1ae9a24fa997693f7119b689158e42e8b9901842c67574a7d5a1948f59fc028.json |
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[
"Tom Fletcher"
] | 2016-08-30T18:51:42 | null | null | Some urban districts struggle with overcrowding, special funds for declining rural schools, bus service to take effect | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fnews%2F391773061.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/2045BCLN2007Schoolstudentblurwide-BJ7web.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | B.C. school enrolment up for second year | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Students return to public school next week, with changes to curriculum and some provincial exams.
Students are returning to class next week in most of B.C.'s public schools, with enrolment expected to be up province-wide for the second year running.
Education Minister Mike Bernier says early forecasts show about 529,000 students, an increase of 2,900 from last year. But that increase is centred on fast-growing school districts, while many rural areas continue to struggle with declining student numbers.
Among changes that parents and students will see this year is a new curriculum in place up to Grade 9, with a test year for changes in the senior grades. Bernier said the new emphasis on collaboration and communication skills does not mean a watering down of the basic skills, and is designed to improve students' ability to work at modern jobs.
Report cards are to continue this school year, but the ministry is reviewing its system with an eye to providing more frequent updates. Parents are being consulted on the changes, Bernier said.
Foundation Skills Assessment tests in grades four and seven are also continuing after years of protests from teacher unions, but that program is also being examined for possible changes. FSA tests will be "enhanced" but not eliminated, Bernier said.
Provincial exams continue for graduates in math and English, but science and social studies will now be assessed at a classroom level rather than school-wide tests, Bernier said.
The ministry provided a series of top-ups to education funding this year, for bus service and to keep selected rural schools from closing. Applications are still being taken for a transportation fund until Sept. 30, requiring districts to drop across-the-board school bus fees to qualify.
Districts may still charge transportation fees for international students or those from outside a school catchment area.
NDP leader John Horgan highlighted the crowding in Surrey school district, where 7,000 students remain in portables despite an expansion program. The NDP says the B.C. government's claim of record per-student funding ignores a reduction of education funding as a share of the provincial economy.
"Since 2001, the B.C. Liberals have dragged public education funding in this province from the second best in Canada to the second worst," Horgan said. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/news/391773061.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/5bc6d24c5291c12e9e97e465e4ba971e79950da37f4828c84382a5503c507732.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:18 | null | null | It would be a little more respectful to the patients, staff and families instead of causing a disruption inside the facility. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fopinion%2Fletters%2F388692441.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/12259mission9476missioniphonepokemon.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | LETTER: Play Pokemon Go with respect | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | On reading the article detailing concerns Mission medical employees and those in their care have with users of the new Pokemon Go app entering the hospice wing, I feel – as a fellow player – prudent to point out that it is 100 per cent feasible to access the hotspot at the mural from outside the building.
It would be a little more respectful to the patients, staff and families instead of causing a disruption inside the facility.
Catch ‘em all, but responsibly.
Nicholas Roberts
Mission | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/opinion/letters/388692441.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/0ecd4b72624d3edfb8eef51fd646c98c3d2fdf026337fe632a5378c972a6a193.json |
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"Kevin Mills"
] | 2016-08-29T04:51:09 | null | null | When crew arrived on scent the structure was “fully involved” according to Mission Fire Chief Dale Unrau. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fnews%2F391565351.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/12311missionfire14th.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Blaze destroys Mission home, no one hurt | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Mission Fire Rescue Service responded to a fully engulfed home on 14th Ave. and Taulbut Street on Sunday night. The call came in at about 6:30 p.m. There were no serious injuries.
A house fire on 14th Avenue on Sunday night have left several Mission residents without a home.
Mission Fire Rescue Service were called to the area of 14th Ave and Taulbut Street at approximately 6:30 p.m. on Sunday.
When crew arrived on scent the structure was “fully involved” according to Mission Fire Chief Dale Unrau.
“Fire was showing from every window and door opening from the residence. Crews initiated an aggressive exterior attack on the structure and was able to stop the fire where it was at on the main floor,” said Unrau.
The flames rose into the roofs, but the basement received only water damage.
There were seven people believed to be living at the residence.
“All occupants were able to exit the building safely and there was no injuries either to firefighters or any residents.”
It is too early to determine a cause of the blaze, but a fire investigator is on scene. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/news/391565351.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/bf43174b9400e85baff8a30de4e5ebc36f0f51b083c4a2558766ab573195b908.json |
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"Canadian Press"
] | 2016-08-29T18:51:24 | null | null | Stark posters warn of overdose dangers to be displayed at transit stops, bars and restaurants aimed at recreational drug users | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fnews%2F391622671.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | New Fraser Health poster campaign raises awareness of opioid overdoses | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | SURREY, B.C. – Fraser Health has launched a poster ad campaign bolstering its ongoing drive to raise awareness of what it says is the overdose crisis in British Columbia.
The posters will be displayed at transit stops, bars and restaurants, and are aimed at recreational and regular drug users, their families and friends.
One message on the stark, black and white posters says: "If you use drugs: Have a plan. Go slowly. Use with a buddy. Carry naloxone."
The posters also offer instructions for anyone finding an overdose victim, directing them to call 911, start emergency breathing and use naloxone, which can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.
Fraser Health says in a news release that it is confident about the effectiveness of the campaign because the posters were tested in focus groups of regular and recreational drug users.
In April, B.C.'s provincial health officer declared a public health emergency linked to the soaring number of opioid overdoses, and the declaration remains in effect.
Dr. Victoria Lee, Fraser Health's chief medical health officer, says the poster campaign is an extension of the health authority's ongoing public awareness campaign, but she says much more has been done to fight overdose deaths.
"We've created new substance-use beds to provide safe and supportive environments for people (who) require additional support on their road to recovery," Lee says in the release.
Over the last 12 to 18 months, Fraser Health has opened 50 new substance-use beds, including a three-bed program for youth and a 12-bed facility for women who are pregnant or have newborns.
A further 97 beds are slated to open by 2017 across the region, which stretches from Burnaby, through Surrey to White Rock and east to Hope.
The announcement of the poster campaign and the update on available substance-use beds comes as Fraser Health prepares to mark International Overdose Awareness Day on Aug. 31.
The Canadian Press | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/news/391622671.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/420b85cf000df5f2a71927ed18690c7b1e35a6abfc703aa3415a1c84ee593abb.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T20:52:04 | null | null | Fundraiser for Muscular Dystrophy Canada set to take place September 10 in parking lot of Canadian Tire. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fcommunity%2F391786301.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/8691missionfirepull2015.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Mission hosts Fire Truck Pull Challenge | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Are you strong enough to pull a fire truck? Mission Fire Rescue Service wants to find out as it will host the annual Fire Truck Pull Challenge on September 10.
One of Mission Fire Rescue’s most successful fundraisers last year, the fire truck pull supports Muscular Dystrophy Canada (MDC).
The event takes place Sept. 10 in the Canadian Tire parking lot at the Junction between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.
The competition pits co-ed teams of eight to 10 people against one another in a race for the best time. A pair of teams compete simultaneously, and when given the signal, the teams pull a fire truck 100 feet, using a rope affixed to the front of it.
There will be prizes for the team with the best time, the most money raised and the best team theme. All team members are encouraged to dress up.
The entry fee is $300, and all proceeds are donated to MDC. The fundraising goal is $10,000.
For more information call or email Richard Collins at 604-751–2986 or Dagwoodfire@hotmail.ca or Mike Henry at 778-855-5295 or Mikel_Henry@shaw.ca. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/community/391786301.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/63170021bb7226b65e8cb2e6b6c8c1a60ffe8d0c29b34fb45c2854a1d16763e0.json |
[
"Tom Fletcher"
] | 2016-08-26T12:57:37 | null | null | Construction industry disruption expected as new tax threatens deals, says Finance Minister Mike de Jong | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fbusiness%2F388480111.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/901BCLN2007constructiontownhouseBP7web.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Government shrugs off foreign real estate fallout | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Premier Christy Clark and her ministers aren't concerned about a backlash or downturn in B.C.'s hot urban real estate market from their sudden decision to impose a 15 per cent tax on foreign buyers in Metro Vancouver.
Housing Minister Rich Coleman said Wednesday the development industry was "taken aback and a bit grumpy" after Premier Christy Clark announced Monday that the new tax takes effect Aug. 2.
Clark confirmed Wednesday that there would be no exemptions to the new tax for real estate sales that were signed but not registered before the deadline. That includes pre-sold condos that were purchased before construction, if they are going to buyers who are not citizens or permanent residents of Canada.
Finance Minister Mike de Jong said tax changes are generally done on short notice, and the government expected there would be some cancelled sales as a result. But the purpose of the tax was to discourage foreign sales and replace them with sales to B.C. residents, he said.
"Part of it relates to the fact that properties going on the market are being scooped up so quickly." de Jong said. "This disruption, this change is taking place in a market where there is incredibly strong domestic demand."
The government intends to put the revenue from the foreign buyer tax into a housing affordability fund, but Coleman said there will be no return to government directly building social housing projects.
New initiatives will be announced in September, with incentives for builders to create more rental housing. The province already provides rent subsidies to 20,000 families to keep them in market housing, and that approach has better results than concentrating low-income people in government housing, Coleman said. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/business/388480111.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/cca5a207d861fb5ce4817fef55c70cb8012a4d45cdffbf7c08f8b7ca6cb77832.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:49 | null | null | In my opinion, there is nothing identified in the reports that would justify the outright dismissal and dismantling of the building. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fopinion%2Fletters%2F387029591.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | LETTER: Reconsider decision to dismantle | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | I’m concerned over Mission Council’s decision to dismantle the Mission observatory. I have read over the same reports that were submitted to council and feel that they have made an error in judgment.
In terms of contributions to date for the building it includes volunteer hours, provincial government grant of $100,000 and the Rotary Club contribution adding up to a total of approximately $250,000. How can the council be prepared to dismiss these contributions? The previous council supported this project as did a local service club which is known for its support of worthwhile projects.
In my opinion, there is nothing identified in the reports that would justify the outright dismissal and dismantling of the building. While there are some issues, things like the revenue projection in the business plan, it is open to interpretation – just because Okanagan Science Centre uses $5 a visit per student as opposed to the Mission Observatory plan to use $10 doesn’t mean it won’t work.
I think one visit a year to a special place like an observatory would be something a parent would find an extra $5 for. The site of the observatory is not ideal but you work with what you have.
There is no reason that the observatory will become a financial burden on the city. Costs are open to interpretation. There are other sources of funding available. If one has creativity and commitment there is no problem that can’t be solved.
There may be some local people including myself who would consider adding an amendment to their wills to allow for a financial legacy to the observatory. There is also an independent charitable organization, the Vancouver Foundation, who have extensive funding available to worthwhile community projects.
I encourage council to reconsider their decision. This will show true leadership and respect for the volunteers, and the generous donations. There are many committed people who are prepared to continue to support this worthwhile project, so it’s not going to fade away.
Ian Mackenzie
Mission | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/opinion/letters/387029591.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/9d1867c299ec18c1bc37cc1f74167ee9513225800305ec624bdf2d5cff8875a3.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:03:50 | null | null | Fraser River Heritage Park is the place to be this weekend as the annual folk music festival has started. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fentertainment%2F388002172.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/43840missionIMG_3702.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | The 29th Mission Folk Music Festival has begun | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Kierah was the first act to perform as the 2016 Mission Folk Music Festival began on Friday night.
It's going to be a busy weekend of music and celebration as the 29th annual Mission Folk Music Festival has begun.
Performances take place tonight (Friday), Saturday and Sunday at Fraser River Heritage Park. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/entertainment/388002172.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/df112bca5bdb4df242373bd98e6f7cf99227fa70736c53e5c1ced062897f6676.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:14:16 | null | null | Canadian women's basketball team kicks off tournament with two wins | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fsports%2F389533891.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/24075mission84914mission8-Gaucher-2WEB.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Gaucher, Canada women's basketball start strong | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Mission's Kim Gaucher drives to the lane during a game against Cuba at the FIBA Americas Women Championship. Gaucher and the Canadian women's basketball team is off to a hot start at the 2016 Olympics.
BY: BEN LYPKA/BLACK PRESS
Mission's Kim Gaucher and the Canadian women's basketball team is feeling it early at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Canada opened with a 10-point lead in the first quarter, and then cruised to a 90-68 win over China on Saturday.
Gaucher had a team-high 10 rebounds to go along with seven assists and three points in the win.
The team then battled Serbia in a see-saw battle today (Monday) that saw Canada pull off the 71-67 win. Serbia was up 40-32 at halftime, but Canada fought back to earn the win.
Gaucher collected eight points, six rebounds and three assists.
Canada battles Senegal on Wednesday, and then the United States on Friday to close out the preliminary round.
Gaucher, who plays in a professional league in France, attended Heritage Park Secondary school before moving on to the University of Utah where she became a star player and eventually had her number retired.
Continue checking The Mission Record online for ongoing coverage of local athletes at the 2016 Summer Olympics. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/sports/389533891.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/a52f0ba336393ada066719827bfa9342e759f956b600811eb304cf3095db18ec.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T14:51:41 | null | null | Granted, there were some issues with the observatory, but nothing that could not be resolved using creativity, problem solving. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fopinion%2Fletters%2F391353821.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | LETTER: Decision will become a 2018 election issue | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | The destruction of the observatory was an unfortunate day for the residents of Mission.
A short-sighted majority of council decided against the wishes of many Mission residents to take upon themselves the decision to demolish what would have been a wonderful educational facility, tourist attraction and more.
Granted, there were some issues with the observatory, but nothing that could not be resolved using creativity, problem solving and some wellplaced financial resources.
Where did the council get the mandate to destroy this beautiful dream? It should have been left for the residents of Mission to decide. Was the fall of 2018 so far away the council had to rush ahead and destroy the building?
My response to Mayor Randy Hawes, who suggests we now must move on and let this issue go, is “it’s not going to happen.” This will be a major election issue come 2018 and I and other Mission residents who supported the observatory will be at every public forum of candidates raising this issue.
Ian Mackenzie
Mission | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/opinion/letters/391353821.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/af13339dbd90bb3c4fac012cdc602a643b8f97b14f108a9f3ce3c588d23a5969.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T14:50:29 | null | null | MLAs are encouraging the district to apply for funding available under the BC government's new $14.7 million School Transportation Fund. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fnews%2F391332651.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/64971missionThinkstockPhotos-78036223.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | School bus funding available to Mission district | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | New funding opportunities for Mission school bus programs are becoming available.
Students and parents in the Mission school district could soon have access to improved school transportation services thanks to up to $188,900 in provincial funding being made available.
Abbotsford-Mission MLA Simon Gibson and Maple Ridge-Mission MLA Marc Dalton made the announcement about the additional funding last week. It was made in Maple Ridge, where some students have been paying additional fees to use the school bus.
The MLAs are encouraging the district to apply for the funding available under the provincial government's new $14.7 million School Transportation Fund. Funding will continue on an ongoing basis in future years.
“This represents new funding and provides our district with a great deal of flexibility,” said Gibson. “Parents have expressed concerns and that’s why I am encouraging the district to seriously consider this particular funding model.”
Gibson told The Record that he welcomes the additional funding for Mission, noting that there are a number of rural areas where students are served by school buses. He believes this fund could be a benefit to them and to the district.
The handful of districts that currently charge families a transportation fee for a student’s local or catchment area school must eliminate those fees to be eligible to access the funding under the program. All districts need to use the funding for transportation services to be eligible.
“I think this is great news for students because the district will now have funding specifically dedicated for transportation,” said Dalton. “This is a new source of funding so that means the district can invest the savings into other programs.”
Funding can also be used in a variety of ways, including:
improving service by adding new or amended routes;
improving access to local transit services;
providing accessible services for students with disabilities;
reducing ride times;
boosting student safety by relocating bus stops and improving bus supervision; and
funding existing transportation services and investing the savings in enhanced student services.
To be eligible for funding, districts must submit a plan to the Ministry of Education by Sept. 30 outlining how they will use the funding to boost transportation services for students and families.
Districts will hear back shortly after they submit applications, on how much funding they will receive.
The amount of funding a district is eligible for is based on a formula tied to the Ministry of Education’s student location factor, which is used to determine the rural makeup of a school district. Districts will also be required to report back on the outcomes and the benefits they achieved as a result of the funding. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/news/391332651.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/59551dbc0cd9fa47db677f6caa1fda87dce933122db782a4df2b46ddd667c6fa.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:22 | null | null | Hawes keeps digging up possible future problems with the observatory. But these are not insurmountable. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fopinion%2Fletters%2F389233431.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | LETTER: Reader says people of Mission want to keep observatory | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Why is Mayor Hawes so adamant about destroying the observatory when things like letters in the Mission Record, the results of Maureen Sinclair’s parks and recreation public opinion papers on the future of the observatory, and the backlash against Habitat for Humanity for aiding in the destruction of the observatory clearly show that the people of Mission want it?
And it is backed by the provincial government, the previous mayor and council, the Mission Rotary Club, the Heritage Park Association and a large number of volunteers.
His dislike of astrology may be influential.
Hawes keeps digging up possible future problems with the observatory. But these are not insurmountable. Isn’t that what people are elected for – to solve problems? And don’t all construction projects have structural and financial problems?
It seems apparent that his main reason is political and personal. He has an ongoing conflict with Brian Antonson, president of the Mission Heritage Association. He feels that Antonson is too far left in his operations and is going to do something about it.
And in so doing, he is crushing the dreams and anticipations of a great many people.
Brian Harvey
Mission | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/opinion/letters/389233431.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/dd24ced9e018d4581c15760a3da2db7b65ef50e7581756574a56f7b394bdfa73.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:54 | null | null | The physical building is destroyed, but the ideas and values behind it are not destroyed and this council will forever be remembered. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fopinion%2Fletters%2F391353691.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | LETTER: Observatory controversy ‘is not finished’ | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | “It is finished,” Mayor Randy Hawes says about the demolition of the observatory.
This is not finished as far as people of Mission are concerned. I know this has been commented on a lot, but seeing the actual physical destruction of such potential stimulated me to write about this topic.
Hawes has finally achieved the destruction of the observatory with a victorious “it is finished.”
The physical building is destroyed, but the ideas and values behind it are not destroyed and this council will forever be remembered as the council who simultaneously caused the destruction of an educational building and the hopes and dreams of a dedicated group of volunteers.
This council must be the only politicians ever to simultaneously dismantle a group of committed, hardworking volunteers and replace them with paid employees, and destroy an observatory.
The mayor is proud of his council for standing firm despite “pillorying.” The dictionary definition of pillory is “a wooden framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, formerly used to expose an offender to public derision.”
Pillorying is defined as “to expose to public contempt, ridicule or scorn.”
In a democratic society, is it really pillorying when the community who elected you expresses their democratic right to oppose unpopular decisions? Apparently the mayor thinks it is and is proud of Mission council for standing firm on this very unpopular and frankly embarrassing decision to destroy the observatory.
Governments who stand firm against the wishes of their community thankfully do not last long.
The observatory is demolished, the mayor says it is finished, we are moving on.
You have destroyed a physical structure and the hope of the community. The mayor and council may move on but the community will not. Destruction is easy; building up good will is not.
Anne Kent
Mission | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/opinion/letters/391353691.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/d702f69ee2c6e6a4284d651b03fc1fec6a3763c8c6acf0308c446fd7bce94815.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:13:53 | null | null | Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett's position boils down to blaming racist, indifferent cops | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fopinion%2F389749591.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/20136BCLN2007Bennett-Carolynswear-in7web.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | BC VIEWS: Missing women inquiry pre-determined | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Toronto MP Carolyn Bennett is sworn in as Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs, November 2015.
The federal government’s National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls is preparing to get underway in September.
With five commissioners led by B.C. judge Marion Buller and a budget that has swelled by a third to $54 million before it even starts, this inquiry has one big advantage over all the previous studies of Canada’s intractable problems of poverty and violence in aboriginal communities.
In this case, the politicians all agree what the outcome is going to be. They’ve been saying so for months, since the Justin Trudeau government got elected on this and other passionate, if questionable, promises.
Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, a member of the We Wai Kai Nation on the B.C. coast, a former Crown prosecutor and chair of the B.C. Treaty Commission, announced the terms of reference last week. She stressed that the inquiry will not attempt to retry cold cases, but to examine the “root causes” of the high numbers of missing and murdered women.
Next up was Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett, who has no doubt at all what those “root causes” are: racism, sexism and the lingering effects of colonialism. Bennett has been meeting steadily with grieving families since being appointed, and now accepts that racist, indifferent cops are the main “root cause.”
Bennett explained this conclusion from New York in April, while attending a “Women of the World” summit. It’s an “uneven application of justice,” she told The Globe and Mail, a phrase we’ll hear again and again.
“You end up with people who have been told it’s an overdose, or a suicide or an accident,” Bennett said.
RCMP have reported close to 1,200 unsolved cases of murdered or missing indigenous women since 1980, a figure that Bennett scoffs at. What’s her evidence? She’s talked to families, and knows it’s “way more” than that.
One of the previous inquiries was by a United Nations official, James Anaya, in 2014. He noted the alarming statistics of education outcome and violent offences against women, and referred to 660 cases documented by the Native Women’s Association of Canada. He also described being besieged by demands for a national inquiry, as he went through the stacks of studies that have already been done.
“Since 1996,” Anaya wrote in his UN report, “there have been at least 29 official inquiries and reports dealing with aspects of this issue, which have resulted in over 500 recommendations for action.”
As the latest inquiry was being launched, Perry Bellegarde, the current Assembly of First Nations national chief, recited Bennett’s speaking points about the conclusions it will reach.
Bellegarde told CTV the problem is vastly under-reported because “…oh, it’s an accidental death. Oh, it’s a suicide.” Then he called for more money for housing and other programs via the failed Indian Act system.
There are several glaring factors that apparently will not be discussed, because they fall outside the politically correct boundaries of this pre-determined narrative.
One is the even more alarming number of aboriginal men and boys who are victims of violent crime.
Another is the rate of domestic abuse reported by indigenous women, which Statistics Canada estimated this year at about 10 per cent of their population. That’s three times the national average, but it was not mentioned amid the demands for justice at the inquiry.
Another key issue that is forbidden from discussion is the social and economic viability of remote communities. Some of them haven’t been able to maintain clean water and safe housing, much less education and employment, despite billions in spending every year.
Tom Fletcher is B.C. legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Email: tfletcher@blackpress.ca Twitter: @tomfletcherbc | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/opinion/389749591.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/9b8d5deb300f0977996004264316061ed7c56a2e73b4d80e0e19d58c5bd6b84a.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:05:32 | null | 2016-07-20T00:00:00 | Brother and sister violin duo, Kai and Lia Gronberg of Fiddlin’ Frenzy along with eight-year-old Anderson Kyte will perform. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fentertainment%2F387696101.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/8863missionScreenShot2016-07-20at3.03.52PM.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Trio of Mission musicians to perform at BC Summer Games | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Brother and sister violin duo, Kai and Lia Gronberg of Fiddlin’ Frenzy along with eight-year-old Anderson Kyte will be performing at Abbotsford’s Rotary Stadium as part of the BC Summer Games closing ceremonies.
Three young Mission musicians will be showcasing their talents during the closing ceremonies of the BC Sumer Games in Abbotsford on July 24.
The trio – brother and sister violin duo, Kai and Lia Gronberg of Fiddlin’ Frenzy along with eight-year-old Anderson Kyte – will be performing at Abbotsford’s Rotary Stadium as part of the games ending celebration.
The trio has have rehearsed diligently in order to prepare the best show possible. Their musical talent will be enhanced by a group of Abbotsford dancers who have choreographed a routine to match their fast fiddling skills.
Come out to support the BC athletes, several of whom are from Mission, either by cheering or volunteering. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/entertainment/387696101.html | en | 2016-07-20T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/3d31a79e04083950867fb6dab11f81a401e9b8f8617dc84fa2cc8f382fbcfd93.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:58:26 | null | null | There's still time to head down to First Ave. and check out the event, hosted by Mission’s Magnolias On Main. It runs until 8 p.m. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fbusiness%2F387040751.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/30936missionIMG_3299.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Summer Boutique takes place in downtown Mission | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Mission’s Magnolias On Main is presenting a Summertime Boutique event on July 15 from 4-8 p.m.
Mission’s Magnolias On Main is presenting a Summertime Boutique event on July 15 from 4-8 p.m.
The event features free door prizes, snacks, refreshments and appetizers.
The event also includes local businesses Tina’s Jewelry, U&I Thai Restaurant, Fronya’s Thrift Boutique and some live music.
A percentage of all retail sales will be donated to the Mission Womens Resource Society. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/business/387040751.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/d6bd1710c55834925066920ee52df3d098ce23e11a9dd2effa90c2a2550da701.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:02:42 | null | null | Jen Hodge All Star Band to entertain the crowd at Mission's Twilight concerts. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fentertainment%2F389232281.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/33337missionJenHodge.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Jazzing up the concert stage | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | The Jen Hodge All Star Band will perform tonight, Aug. 5, at 7 p.m. at Fraser River Heritage Park.
The Envision Financial Twilight Concert Series continues this month at Fraser River Heritage Park in Mission with a performance tonight (Aug. 5) by the Jen Hodge All Star Band. The performance starts at 7 p.m.
Hodge is one of the most sought-after jazz musicians in Vancouver, and has a profound love of music and the musicians with whom she plays.
The Jen Hodge All Stars are Vancouver’s most authentic and in-demand jazz band. Comprising some of the city’s best young jazz musicians, the group is well versed in the music of the 1910s, ’20s, and ’30s, taking their cues from past greats such as early Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, and Jelly Roll Morton.
The group’s extensive repertoire, versatility, boundless energy, and deep love for musical spontaneity makes each performance different from the next and keeps listeners, dancers, and fellow musicians coming back for more.
The Mission Arts Council (MAC) will also be on site tonight with the Art in the Park. It features local artisans and artists in and around the gazebo.
This has been a popular addition and the MAC has been an avid community partner of the Twilight concerts for many years.
On Wednesday, Aug. 10, the series is delighted to have David Gogo stopping by the Twilight stage.
Gogo’s groove-fueled blend of blues and rock is the basis for a singular and storied music career. His songs have been featured in film and television and are regularly played on blues radio programs the world over.
He has earned numerous Canadian blues accolades, including five JUNO nominations, a Western Canadian Music Award, a CBC Saturday Night Blues Award, and multiple Maple Blues Awards. He has 30 years of performing and hundreds of thousands of tour miles under his belt.
Gogo has shared the stage with a number of blues legends including Johnny Winter and Bo Diddly. Although he has been featured on a number of well-known American albums, he has released an astonishing 12 solo albums.
The Twilight concerts are free, and all are invited to bring a blanket or a lawn chair to the park and enjoy the views and the tunes. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/entertainment/389232281.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/43980026eba1637313dc29f31bb338ef2abd28c5edf0b8f0ef7d49f4ddfafeac.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:12 | null | null | We welcomed over 4,000 attendees on the weekend to our festival in the beautiful Fraser River Heritage Park. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fopinion%2Fletters%2F389233311.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | LETTER: Thanks for supporting folk music festival | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | It is with grateful hearts that we reflect on the generosity of the community of Mission and surrounding areas for their support of the 29th annual Mission Folk Music Festival.
We welcomed over 4,000 attendees on the weekend to our festival in the beautiful Fraser River Heritage Park.
Approximately 125 performers, 300 volunteers and 21 area coordinators came together to present a weekend of music, dance, hands-on workshops and family fun.
We very much appreciate the support of all who made this happen: patrons, volunteers, donors, sponsors, and funders, including Canadian Heritage and the Province of B.C.
We particularly acknowledge the tremendous support of the District of Mission and park staff.
We created a more intimate festival experience this year, and our audience appreciated the smaller footprint and the sense of community and warmth that resulted.
We shall continue on this sustainable path as we work towards celebrating our 30th annual Mission Folk Music Festival on July 21-23, 2017. We hope you will join us.
Michelle Demers Shaevitz
on behalf of the board and staff of the Mission Folk Music Festival Society | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/opinion/letters/389233311.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/c8557c324c43f701a73d3037006d3f4cb3b4aca9c239300c5eba018b5cfa92cd.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:07:18 | null | null | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fcommunity%2F390734131.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/73422missionsoroptomist.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Soroptimist career camp in Mission | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | The Soroptimist International of Abbotsford-Mission service club is hosting an event on Wednesday.
Support for female high school students exploring their post-secondary education and career options is being offered by the Soroptimist International of Abbotsford Mission service club.
The club is hosting a day-long camps for girls aged 14 to 18, where they will learn about career opportunities, setting and achieving goals, and overcoming obstacles to success.
The Dream It, Be It career support for girls event takes place in Mission on Wednesday, Aug. 24 from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Girls and their parents or guardians can learn more and sign up for the program by contacting the club at siabbotsford.mission@soroptimist.net or by registering on EventBrite.
The sessions will answer questions about college, setting and achieving career goals and having access to professional role models and mentors.
For more information on Soroptimists, visit soroptimistiam.org. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/community/390734131.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/e9be6f807c3e9330acb96680136a6d922ea36bea8ffaa4b7c17ea6377cbffb7e.json |
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"Canadian Press"
] | 2016-08-26T13:09:23 | null | null | Notice means delivery could be cancelled as early as Monday | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fnews%2F391302051.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/68221BCLN200782072cranbrookdailyCPweb.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Postal union issues strike notice after it says Canada Post refused special mediator | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | The union representing most workers at Canada Post has issued a 72-hour notice of job action as it tries to bargain a collective agreement with the Crown corporation.
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers says the notice spells out what actions it is planning, but stops short of a full-blown walkout.
CUPW national president Mike Palecek says Canada Post forced the labour disruption by refusing to accept a request from the federal labour minister to continue negotiations with the help of a special mediator.
But a spokesman for the agency says that's not the case.
The union's strike mandate was set to expire at midnight.
The two sides have been in negotiations for more than nine months but are far apart on key issues including pay equity for rural carriers and proposed changes to the Canada Post pension plan.
The Canadian Press | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/news/391302051.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/de983e24cbf323a1506d2d13cf10414dfe6747664f19df8074868e421bc95a0d.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T14:55:06 | null | null | Mission’s Andrew Donatelli scored 93 points in the 23 to 24.5 yard handicap division in the Grand Pacific Championship Handicap contest. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fsports%2F391347251.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/70163mission160826-MCR-shooting.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | He's a real shooting star | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Mission’s Andrew Donatelli won big at the 85th annual Pacific International Trapshooting Association Grand Pacific Championships.
A Mission resident won big at the 85th annual Pacific International Trapshooting Association Grand Pacific Championships.
Mission’s Andrew Donatelli scored 93 points in the 23 to 24.5 yard handicap division in the Grand Pacific Championship Handicap contest.
The event, which took place in Olympia, Washington in late-July, saw hundreds of shooters compete in 17 different shooting events.
Donatelli’s event, which involves competitors shooting 100 targets, saw 15 different divisions award championships. Winners received a $10 gold piece for their efforts.
For more information on the event, visit shootpita.com/grand-pacific-2016. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/sports/391347251.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/89e4d53872a9333a04b3040a91ea8254067044e3eaa5f95e1b17fa7967a4e4b9.json |
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"Tom Fletcher"
] | 2016-08-26T13:11:32 | null | null | Small communities have more than 400 doctor vacancies, with 'telehealth' and visiting specialists filling gaps | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Flifestyles%2F385489111.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/32759BCLN2007Kelly-Doug15-2.4.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Video links grow as rural health care shrinks | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Doug Kelly, chair of the B.C. First Nations Health Council
With patients in urban areas having difficulty finding a family doctor, the situation in rural B.C. is going from bad to worse, MLAs on the province's health committee were told Monday.
Ed Staples, a member of the B.C. Health Coalition, described his efforts to improve the situation in Princeton, a community of about 5,000 people that four years ago was down to one doctor providing on-call service.
Princeton now has four full-time doctors and two nurse practitioners, but there are still people who can't find a doctor in the region, including Penticton an hour and a half away. A recent search of the College of Physicians and Surgeons website turned up the nearest doctor accepting patients in Courtney on Vancouver Island, Staples said.
Health Match BC, the province's web portal for recruiting doctors, nurses and other health professionals, currently has more than 400 general practitioner vacancies, with 37 communities seeking 85 doctors. The result is "bidding wars" between communities to offer incentives to relocating doctors, and foreign doctors using a rural community as an entry point before relocating to the Lower Mainland, he said.
The B.C. government has announced its latest videoconferencing service for health care, linking psychiatrists with young people in Cranbrook. The service is available twice a month at the local Children and Family Development office, supplementing visits by specialists in communities such as Cranbrook and Princeton. Health Minister Terry Lake says video conferencing and electronic health records are a key part of the solution for reaching patients across B.C.
Doug Kelly, chair of the B.C. First Nations Health Council, told the committee of an Abbotsford doctor who travels to Carrier Sekani territory around Prince George for part of his practice, in a pilot project with Northern Health.
Kelly said video links and nurse practitioners are part of the solution to delivering rural and remote care, but the main obstacle is the business model for doctors that has them cycling through as many as 20 patients an hour to bill enough to cover their office overhead.
Committee members were also reminded that graduating doctors are increasingly reluctant to take on the demands of family practice, especially in smaller communities where they may find themselves on call around the clock. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/lifestyles/385489111.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/2bfd8b9bc66a582c9d2a4f0faff19a46d52d3aaaa1c987062b18418af01b970a.json |
[
"Tom Fletcher"
] | 2016-08-26T13:00:20 | null | null | Gold mine near Prince Rupert shut down last summer for permit violations, owners charged for failing to report spill | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fbusiness%2F390008831.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/31694BCLN2007minebanksislandgold7web.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Banks Island miners face 18 pollution charges | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Two men and a mining company in receivership have been charged with 18 pollution infractions related to their shut-down gold mine on an island near Prince Rupert.
Benjamin Mossman and Dirk Meckert are scheduled to appear in Prince Rupert provincial court Sept. 7. Also charged is Banks Island Gold Ltd., which went into receivership after being shut down last year for provincial permit violations.
The Yellow Giant mine was ordered shut down by the Ministry of Environment in July 2015 after a tailings spill was reported on a tip. There is one charge of failing to report a spill of a polluting substance, and the other 17 charges are for failing to comply with permits.
North Coast MLA Jennifer Rice raised the issue in the legislature this spring, after receiving a letter from the Gitxaala First Nation referring to two separate tailings spills. Rice said the ministry did not inspect the operation for 15 months, until receiving a complaint.
NDP mining critic Norm Macdonald told the legislature a worker at the mine "became fed up, put his job on the line, sent the ministry and me a tip and pictures that documented what was going on there."
Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett said the mine was shut down when the situation was brought to its attention. The mine's 90 employees lost their jobs.
The province has a $420,000 security bond from the mining company, to provide ongoing monitoring. In March the mines ministry and Banks Island Gold removed explosives from the mine site and in May ministry technical staff assessed the hazardous materials on site.
The B.C. Conservation Officer Service, which recommended the charges, would not comment on the current condition of the Banks Island site, because it is evidence for the prosecution. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/business/390008831.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/4509d99ed011835285cf9ffd3c1c395edfc1e02bc6baf46acd0643802bde389f.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:45 | null | null | When I first heard they were going to build an observatory here, as a gateway to the stars, I was enamoured of such a perfect idea. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fopinion%2Fletters%2F385069981.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | LETTER: Let us celebrate the stars | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Having recently read in the Mission City Record all the mixed reviews of the collapse of the observatory, it has struck a chord with my silenced sentiments on this subject – particularly (letter-writer) Bill Tyler’s thoughts resonated.
Having lived in Mission for 26 years, Heritage Park has been a highlight.
Not only for the fabulous community events that regularly take place here, or the delights of our legendary Blackberry Kitchen, but simply for the pleasant dog walks that always brighten the day.
The luscious greenery, old and young trees, the colourful rhododendrons, azaleas and mixed flowerbeds, winding paths, the flowing Fraser River, the valley farmland framed by the coastal mountains and Mt. Baker, solid and unchanging, standing in the distance, is a feast for the eyes and senses – in all the seasons.
When I first heard they were going to build an observatory here, as a gateway to the stars, I was enamoured of such a perfect idea.
It was thrilling to see the building being erected, anticipating the marvelous end result.
When the powers that be stepped in and chose to cancel these plans, I was crestfallen.
The park is a beautiful haven that has anointed the people of Mission with endless gifts. It is a daily reminder that the cliche “the best things in life are free” holds true.
I believe there is no better educational tool than the appreciation and regard for the world so wondrously surrounding us all. The opportunity to celebrate the stars and heavenly skies is at our fingertips.
Kim Oshiro-O’Neill
Mission | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/opinion/letters/385069981.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/e26949606807c7b3f2b5bb7734df840f07a4e9a1b9222b807600372d4173eca9.json |
[
"Tom Fletcher"
] | 2016-08-26T12:59:30 | null | null | No permit required for weddings, festivals on farms if fewer than 150 people attend, says Agriculture Minister Norm Letnick | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fbusiness%2F388995481.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/15664BCLN2007farmWeddingCarriagewikim7web.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Brides, bands allowed back on farmland | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Almost a year after B.C. farm weddings were banned due to a crackdown on agricultural land use rules, the B.C. government has clarified what commercial activities are allowed on farmland.
Farmers can host up to 10 commercial weddings, concerts or non-agricultural events per year without a permit from the Agricultural Land Commission. Farmers can take payment to host a wedding or other event as long as no more than 150 guests attend and a list of conditions are met, according to regulations that took effect Tuesday.
To qualify, event hosts must provide all parking on the farm rather than along roads, with no permanent parking lots or structures, and the event must end in less than 24 hours. For more than 10 events a year or exceeding 150 guests, properties with farm tax status must apply to the ALC for a permit.
The new regulation also clarifies ALC policies to allow, with no permit, farm tours and demonstrations, hayrides, corn mazes, pumpkin patch tours, harvest and Christmas fairs and special occasion events to promote farm products.
Agriculture Minister Norm Letnick said the regulation requiring farms to generate at least 50 per cent of its revenue from farm products is also scrapped, after consultation in the past year suggested the new rules instead.
The crackdown on farm weddings came last fall, when the ALC issued stop-work orders to B.C. farms including the Fraser Valley, Kelowna and Vancouver Island.
The restriction came after the province expanded farm uses to allow breweries and distilleries to operate on protected farmland with the same rules used to permit wineries. The rules allowed for processing of farm crops into products such as juice or jam for commercial sale. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/business/388995481.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/e972bc3f4dcc318dbc47b125e6f75ef3db1fdf709b8ea8f4147e38f160e06ba0.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:11:47 | null | null | You can view the guide online, or pick up a copy at the Mission Visitor Centre or the the Mission Record office. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Flifestyles%2F375276241.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/89666missionvisitguide2016.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Summer is here: Check out the 2016 Mission Visitor Guide for plenty of great ideas | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | The official 2016 Mission Visitor Guide was sent out to homes across the community in April.
However, if you didn't receive one, or have guests who are looking for things to do and places to go, then grab a copy today.
This 56-page magazine is your guide to all things Mission. The book is available at the Mission and Regional Chamber of Commerce Visitor Centre (34033 Lougheed Hwy.), the Mission Record office (33047 First Ave.) and at visitor centres across the province.
You can view this beautiful, full colour guide online by clicking the link above or click here. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/lifestyles/375276241.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/04e4cfed39a91556f86f9d177175f4a28aa5bfadb4aa7488652b40246edebafe.json |
[
"Tom Fletcher"
] | 2016-08-26T13:09:46 | null | 2014-02-04T00:00:00 | Guns intercepted at Pacific region border crossings up 116 per cent compared to this time last year | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fnews%2F391214101.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/12413BCLN2007Gunsabb-HuntingtonCBSA2014-2.4.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | U.S. border gun seizures double | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Guns seized from visitors entering Canada at the Huntington-Abbotsford border crossing, 2014.
Canadian Border Services Agency has seen a 116 per cent increase in the number of firearms seized in the Pacific Region in the first half of 2016.
With a 10 per cent increase also recorded in the Prairie region, the CBSA is working with U.S. officials on a firearms awareness campaign to remind Americans about restrictions on bringing guns into Canada.
"Attempting to smuggle firearms across the border can result in immediate forfeiture, hefty fines and even significant jail time," said Kim Scoville, CBSA's regional director general for the Prairie region.
Visitors entering the border inspection line should declare any firearms at their first opportunity. Border services officers will take possession of the weapon if it is declared, but the visitor has the option of shipping it back under CBSA supervision or surrendering it without prosecution.
The RCMP has procedures for visitors bringing firearms into Canada | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/news/391214101.html | en | 2014-02-04T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/a2aa45f25ce629909e51b8fcebebe2e5cef72a7f011443446167098a71f48965.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:28 | null | null | Drivers tailgate, pass at pedestrian crossings, pass on the right shoulder while one is waiting to make a left turn, and run stop signs. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fopinion%2Fletters%2F389233201.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | LETTER: Drivers should be educated at an early age | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | I have been meaning to write this letter for a long time.
What got me going is a conversation I had recently with a Mission woman about the terrible driving she sees in her neighbourhood.
I see it too, every day!
Drivers tailgate, they pass at pedestrian crossings, pass on the right shoulder while one is waiting to make a left turn, run stop signs and red lights, do not signal before making a turn, and speed in parking lots. I could go on.
Why is it that when people get behind the wheel of a vehicle they seem to go brain dead?
I think it is high time for both our ministry of motor vehicles and the ministry of education to initiate a course in elementary schools that will teach people to behave on our roads and highways, whether they be pedestrians, cyclists or drivers.
After all, as my late mother used to say, it is what you learn when you are young that sticks with you the rest of your life.
Walter Schmur
Mission | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/opinion/letters/389233201.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/41e7a7a88fde730dfd1db7bb9349710e0dc90a3e35fabfb08692dc9cb379e91a.json |
[
"Canadian Press"
] | 2016-08-31T00:51:50 | null | null | Two sides avert job action that has loomed for months | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fnews%2F391803281.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/18051BCLN2007Canada_Post_TruckWikimediaCommons.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Canada Post, postal union reach tentative deals | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers have reached tentative agreements, averting the prospect of a labour dispute that has loomed over the talks for months.
In a statement, Labour Minister MaryAnn Mihychuk says the agreements were reached "voluntarily," but provides no other details about the deals themselves.
The issue of differences in paycheques for rural mail carriers — most of whom are women — and urban letter carriers had been at the forefront of protracted contract talks between the two sides.
The negotiations were extended twice since the weekend, when a deadline expired on a 72-hour job action notice issued last Thursday by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers.
The two sides were in talks nearly around the clock at the request of a special mediator appointed Friday by Mihychuk.
Canada Post described the tentative agreements as short-term. It said they are for two years and that four-year contracts were typically negotiated in the past.
"The agreements will avert a work disruption, bringing much-needed certainty in the postal system for our employees and customers," said Canada Post in a statement. "Canadians can now use the postal system with confidence."
The tentative agreements, however, still must be ratified by the members.
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers is Canada Post's largest union, representing more than 50,000 postal workers
The Canadian Press | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/news/391803281.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/254030937eaddf27076a658d3ab937ff6b969591b65d11abee21147ebc7f5126.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:14:13 | null | null | Mission volleyballer has caught the attention of Volleyball Canada. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fsports%2F389230811.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/32629mission160805-MCR-volleyball.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | McBride named to youth national team | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Kristen McBride, who is entering Grade 11 at Mission Secondary in the fall, was one of 36 athletes from across Canada invited to the Youth National Team training program at the National Team Challenge Cup in Richmond late last month.
Ben Lypka
Abbotsford News
A Mission volleyballer has caught the attention of Volleyball Canada.
Kristen McBride, who is entering Grade 11 at Mission Secondary in the fall, was one of 36 athletes from across Canada invited to the Youth National Team training program at the National Team Challenge Cup in Richmond late last month.
McBride was selected to attend the Baden Cup in Kamloops at Thompson Rivers University from June 30 to July 4, and on July 4 she was selected as one of 30 athletes to train with Team B.C.
She trained with Team B.C. until July 12, when they travelled to Richmond to compete at the Olympic Oval for the National Team Challenge Cup. The NTTC was help from July 14 to 17. From that event, McBride was picked as one of 36 athletes to train from July 18 to 23 as part of the Volleyball Canada Youth National Development Program.
She was one of only three B.C. players to attend the program, which selects and identifies athletes who have the potential to represent Canada at a young age.
The Selects and Youth (18U) Team Canada program provides an environment of excellence in Canada to expose identified athletes to international level of education, training and competition early in their career.
McBride and the 35 other female players trained in Richmond at the Olympic Oval and at the University of British Columbia from July 18 to 23. The camps included practices, training tips and games to close off the week.
The Mission resident is a left-side hitter, and plays club volleyball for Fraser Valley Volleyball Club. She’s played club volleyball for the past five years, and started playing at the high school level in Grade 9 at Hatzic Secondary School, where she led the team to a fifth-place overall finish in AA provincials that year.
Last summer, she was selected to the Volleyball B.C. High Performance Program, and her team placed fourth in the zone championships provincial tournament.
McBride is heavily involved in the local volleyball community, as she helps coach and officiate the sport as part of a local volleyball leadership program.
She aims to continue her passion for the sport at the post-secondary level, as she eyes opportunities and scholarships when she graduates high school in 2018. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/sports/389230811.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/036ece0fa7f149e41714aa977a2ac1b140c6c2149311054ca2b73d4f1743621d.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T12:51:04 | null | null | In the second quarter, the forest operations produced a net profit of $175,319, much better than an expected loss of $17,954. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fnews%2F391350631.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/71822missioncoat-of-arms.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Forestry operations producing solid profits for District of Mission | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Mission’s forestry operations are producing solid profits for the municipality.
In the second quarter, the forest operations produced a net profit of $175,319, much better than an expected loss of $17,954. While the sales volume of logs was actually lower by 1,243 cubic metres, the return was better than expected, with each cubic metre selling for $22.40. The price of lumber has been strong for much of 2016, due to solid housing starts in both Canada and the United States and strong exports to Asian markets.
In the first six months of the year, the forestry operations have shown a net profit of $744,063. The 2016 budget calls for a profit of $256,037 for the year.
The district’s forestry reserve fund now stands at $2,427,687. While it is expected to decrease due to some spending commitments in the current quarter, the fund stands to return more money to district operations than had been expected this year.
Mission is the only Lower Mainland municipality with its own tree farm licence, and logging on Mission lands is a steady contributor to the District of Mission’s budget. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/news/391350631.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/069ba80add169a691dc2541220195c7c65f891835ea90bfb179e6da3741ced2d.json |
[
"Laura Baziuk"
] | 2016-08-26T13:09:58 | null | null | The BC SPCA trying to identify two people after a Boxer-cross that had apparently died of heat exposure was found in a Dumpster. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fnews%2F391173801.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/97157BCLN2007DumpsterSPCA.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | VIDEO: Dead dog thrown in Dumpster in Coquitlam | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Surveillance footage taken at 68 Schooner Street in Coquitlam on July 26 shows two people appearing to dump a dog's body into the trash.
BC SPCA staff are looking for the public's help to identify two people who tossed a dead dog into a Dumpster about a month ago in Coquitlam.
Officials were alerted to the remains by the city's animal control, said Lorie Chortyk, the SPCA's general manager of community relations. Necropsy results that were just received suggest the young, female Boxer-cross likely died of extreme heat exposure.
Security footage from 68 Schooner Street shows a light-coloured van pulling up behind the building, and two people getting out to discard the animal.
"Someone will know this dog," Chortyk said. "They will recognize the people in the footage."
She added the SPCA is not so focused on how the dog was discarded, but how it died. Charges of animal cruelty could be considered if it turns out the animal died after being left in hot car, for example.
"If there was no wrongdoing in this case, then we just close the file. We just want to know what happened."
Anyone who recognizes the people or the dog's blue and grey collar with red and black leash are asked to call the BC SPCA's animal cruelty hotline at 1-855-622-7722.
The last time a dog's body being left in a Dumpster made headlines was in 2012.
A German shepherd named Captain was found beaten and bleeding in a Dumpster in Kitsilano four years ago.
His owner, Brian Whitlock, was jailed for 60 days for causing unnecessary suffering to the animal. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/news/391173801.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/70d76daed8a8159635a7705e59837813ff1cf4c3961c5cdd10ea35ef60c13959.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:14:01 | null | null | More volunteers, more organizing, more expectations and – most importantly – more funding are required to keep an event like this going. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fopinion%2F385906191.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/32389missionMissionRecordLogo.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | EDITORIAL: A victim of its own success | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | This week’s announcement that the Illuminaria Lantern Festival has been cancelled came as a shock to many. However, if you take a closer look at the festival, and other popular Mission-based events, the news really isn’t that surprising.
The lantern festival is a victim of its own success. The Mission Association for Community Living (MACL) has done a tremendous job running the event. From its humble beginnings in 2000, when 100 people showed up to light up Fraser River Heritage Park, to last year ,when a crowd of over 5,000 attended, the festival has steadily grown in popularity.
But growth isn’t always a good thing. More volunteers, more organizing, more responsibility, more expectations and – most importantly – more funding are required to keep an event like this going.
Simply put, the festival outgrew its makers.
The question now is do we just abandon the event or try to save it?
Council is looking at options, but should the district help fund the festival or try to find a new organization to take it over? Either way, the future of Illuminaria is clearly in doubt.
If it is to survive, potential organizers may want to take a look at the Mission Folk Music Festival, another local tradition that recently fell on hard times.
The Folk Fest has struggled for funding for some time. As a result, this year’s show has been adjusted to suit a smaller budget.
Admission prices are lower, the acts are more local than in the past and other aspects have been scaled back.
It’s a small step backward in hopes of taking more steps forward in the future.
If Illuminaria does survive, it can benefit from that philosophy. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/opinion/385906191.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/cfb9d19147cfaecbb023504c4050d29e01abfe0d3952633b6f0ce2efd7b0ba2f.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T22:50:46 | null | null | Volunteers to ask seniors about staff, food, privacy, medications and other conditions in residential care | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Flifestyles%2F391445481.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/18269BCLN2007Nursinghomeflickr7web.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Senior home survey seeks volunteers | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | B.C. has 300 seniors' care facilities, and residents and their loved ones are to be surveyed on conditions.
More than 250 volunteers have signed up to compile a survey of seniors in residential care, and B.C.'s Seniors Advocate is looking for more.
The 27,000 seniors living in 300 residential care facilities around the province are being asked about their experience with care home staff, the quality of food, privacy, medications and other conditions.
It's the first comprehensive survey done in B.C., to measure resident satisfaction and provide a "roadmap" for improvements, said Seniors Advocate Isobel Mackenzie.
Interviews will be conducted in person by trained volunteers, and a matching mail-out survey will be sent to each resident's most frequent visitor.
The project is seeking volunteers with a range of professional backgrounds, ages and ethnicities. To apply as a volunteer, visit www.surveybcseniors.org or call the Office of the Seniors Advocate at 1-877-952-3181. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/lifestyles/391445481.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/5a29ab8259f64caf835825bddd9bfc241f3a3202288b056f53e936b2cb6849a0.json |
[
"Kevin Mills"
] | 2016-08-26T22:51:13 | null | null | Mission’s Heather McCormick, 78, is still minding her store on North Railway Ave. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fcommunity%2F391426851.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/10901missionasweage.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Working is a way of life for Mission senior | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | If you can think of it, you can probably find it at Heather McCormick’s shop. The 78-year-old Mission resident has run the Bargain Store on Railway Avenue for the past 29 years and has no plans to slow down anytime soon. McCormick still looks forward to talking with customers and, hopefully, discovering a new antique.
Sitting on a small chair behind her counter, Heather McCormick chats with two friends/customers. The 78-year-old entrepreneur sips a coffee while discussing the days events, surrounded by a clutter of items.
Tables, chairs, dog leashes – if you can think of it, you will likely find it at her store.
McCormick is the owner and operator of The Bargain Store on North Railway Avenue in Mission’s downtown core. She’s been running the store for the past three decades and has no plans to stop.
“Next year will be 30 years. I think I’ll make it, I feel pretty good,” she said with a hint of humour in her voice.
McCormick, who loves living in the country, came to Mission from Powell River in 1981. Her youngest child was born with medical problems and doctors encouraged her to move closer to children’s hospital in Vancouver.
“And Mission was as close to the country as we could get,” she explained.
Less than a year after arriving in Mission, McCormick’s husband found himself out of work and she decided it was time to make some money for the family.
“You can’t pay the mortgage by selling at the flea market one day a week so we jumped in here,” she said.
At that time, the building on Railway was vacant and locked up. McCormick went to work turning it into her new business.
Twenty-nine years later, she s still running the business.
“It’s always fun because there are always people coming and going. I think that’s why we’ve lasted so long in Mission because there are so many nice people in Mission.”
She still enjoys chatting with customers and meeting new people, but, the real thrill is when new items are brought in.
“That’s why it’s always fun, you never know what you are going to get. We’re always happy to get something old and interesting or ‘antiquey.’ I like the old stuff.”
While she loves to see the merchandise, McCormick said she never takes any of it home for herself.
“We sell everything we get.”
Well past retirement age, McCormick has no plans to slow down, adding that running the store is just a way of life.
“I wouldn’t know what to do with myself if I didn’t. It’s good for you to keep going. It’s all good.” | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/community/391426851.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/7dabf4c089b666bc07c6c8cc8f0ab8131939f840160827fdcc4c10eea51ba600.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:11:39 | null | null | Mission's annual Gerry Griner Memorial Horse Show took place on the weekend. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Flifestyles%2F383460021.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/86586mission20160612_4697.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Talented riders enjoy fun competition | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Laura and Gracie team up for the Bareback Back to Back Switch competition.
The annual Gerry Griner Memorial Horse Show was held at the Mission Equestrian Centre on Sunday morning.
The event started with a costume parade, followed by several different riding competitions. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/lifestyles/383460021.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/5da5733f301394860bbfc2741712cf53b51da5e1284078b53328b1908c221d7f.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T06:55:26 | null | null | After two great days of action, the event wraps up on Sunday August 28. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fsports%2F391525981.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/77856missionIMG_6877.JPG.jpeg.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Smoke Fire and Thunder: Huge event at Mission Raceway Park (with video) | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Mission Raceway was roaring with action on the weekend. Racing continues on Sunday August 28.
Mission Raceway Park is hosting a huge event August 26-28.
Smoke, Fire and Thunder features some great racing action, including Jet Cars on Saturday night.
On Sunday there are time trials, promods and wheelstanders. Don't miss a great show. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/sports/391525981.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/11a57b9c1f2d9abbe92977b5ae6a60b31199b4320e31c87dca79d12a652ee70b.json |
[
"Tom Fletcher"
] | 2016-08-26T13:13:35 | null | null | Premier Christy Clark isn't going into next year's election with a promise to jack up Canada's only significant carbon tax | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fopinion%2F391051701.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/42735BCLN2007ClarkPolakNissanLeaf7web.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | BC VIEWS: B.C. fails to save the planet | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Premier Christy Clark and Environment Minister Mary Polak plug in an electric car at an announcement of the government's latest climate change plan in Richmond Aug. 19.
A B.C. Liberal operative was out with the online spin hours before Premier Christy Clark confirmed the much-leaked news in a Friday afternoon announcement at an obscure location in Richmond.
The, er, freeze is continuing for B.C.’s ground-breaking, world-saving carbon tax, which hasn’t changed since before Clark was elected in 2013.
The spin was Olympic-themed, with a picture labeled to show B.C. as a swimmer far out in the lead in the pool, to symbolize that it’s the other provinces that need to catch up in the race to save the planet.
Clark has been saying that for years, and there is merit to it. Even without a tax on “process emissions” such as from cement kilns, B.C.’s carbon tax encourages imports of non-taxed cement from the U.S. and China.
Alberta business professor Andrew Leach, who advised the Stephen Harper and then Rachel Notley governments on greenhouse gas policies, summed up the problem this way.
“Until the rest of the world has policies that impose similar cost, you’re not actually reducing emissions to the extent you think,” Leach said. “You’re just displacing the emissions and the economic activity to other jurisdictions.”
Alberta is moving to join B.C. with a modest carbon tax, but the NDP government plans to spend the proceeds rather than return them in income tax as B.C. has done. And Washington state and most of the rest of the world have no carbon tax as such, so their businesses benefit from B.C.’s “climate leadership.”
B.C.’s foreign-funded eco-radical community was, needless to say, appalled. The Pembina Institute’s Matt Horne and career protesters Tzeporah Berman and Merran Smith were named to the premier’s advisory committee last year, along with business, academic and aboriginal representatives.
They concluded that increases to B.C.’s broad-based tax on carbon fuels should resume its upward march in 2018.
Other committee members, including the mayors of Surrey, Comox and Burns Lake, were not heard from. Public discussion on this issue is now reduced to a staged conflict between those who demand a holy war on deadly carbon dioxide “pollution,” and those who don’t care if their grandchildren perish in a hell-fire of fossil fuel use.
We’ve just come off another El Nino year, like the hot year of 1998. Regular readers will recall the last time I discussed this topic was this spring, where I questioned the premier’s dire warnings of another horrendous forest fire season.
What followed has been one of the slowest forest fire seasons in the last decade, although dry conditions have finally emerged this month. Climate predictions, like next week’s weather forecast, are less than consistent.
I am regularly sent messages calling me a “climate change denier,” the nonsense term that continues to be used by federal Environment Minister Catharine McKenna among many others. I know of no one who denies that climate is always changing, at times dramatically.
If you wish to believe that paying an extra seven cents a litre for gasoline in B.C. is helping to slow the very gradual increase in temperatures we’re seeing in the northern hemisphere, you are free to do so.
You may even be persuaded to take a government subsidy and buy an expensive, short-range electric car. Me, I’m off to Prince Rupert and Revelstoke pretty soon, so I’ll stick with my little four-cylinder gas sipper for now.
Hydro-powered B.C. represents a small fraction of the less than two per cent Canada contributes to global greenhouse gas emissions. We’re not the problem, and no, the world is not looking to us for guidance.
Tom Fletcher is B.C. legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Email: tfletcher@blackpress.ca Twitter: @tomfletcherbc | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/opinion/391051701.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/3dd407fcb422fc6d3c87aa2df44b0bcd25e682fff51d93065632a81df6ddede6.json |
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"Tom Fletcher"
] | 2016-08-26T13:11:24 | null | null | Collector plates will be available next year for modified as well as stock cars made between 1958 and 1974 | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Flifestyles%2F389536851.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/25111BCLN2007Chevrolet_Camaro1969-wikim7web.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Collector program expanding to 'muscle cars' | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Modified versions of the 1969 Camaro SS and other popular vehicles will soon be eligible for B.C. collector plates, allowing occasional use for parades and car shows.
The B.C. government is expanding its collector vehicle licence system to include eligible modified cars made between 1958 and 1974, to capture the popular "muscle car" era of the 1960s.
The ICBC collector plate program gives car enthusiasts a lower-cost licence plate that allows occasional use for parades and classic car shows. ICBC plans to take applications starting in 2017 for eligible modified vehicles up to 1974, and replica cars resembling North American production cars from 1942 and earlier.
With strict rules that the cars must be in "collectible condition," changes will take in modified popular cars from the Dodge Duster to the Chevrolet Camaro and Ford Mustang, as well as replicas of the popular Ford "deuce coupe" from the 1930s.
Premier Christy Clark announced a break for older cars this spring, allowing vehicles from 1940 or earlier and their replicas to run without fenders or mud flaps when the highway is dry and paved.
Transportation Minister Todd Stone said the collector car industry is significant for B.C., with registered collector vehicles having doubled to 26,000 in the past 10 years.
"We want to see this specialty vehicle program remain viable, preserve vehicle history and evolve with the times," Stone said. "That's why we are opening up the opportunity to owners of specialty cars within the 'muscle car' era."
Currently, the standard collector plate is available to cars 25 years or older, as well as discontinued or limited production vehicles 15 years or older. It requires a stock engine with no performance enhancements, no rust, dents or "significant wear and tear" of the interior.
Modified vehicles from 1958 or older are currently eligible for collector plates, if they retain the shell of the original body but have parts replaced or modified in the chassis, engine, suspension, steering or brakes.
Owners have to apply for a collector or modified collector plate, with purchase and parts bills, photos and inspection reports.
Applications for collector and modified collector programs are available on ICBC's website, www.icbc.com, and can be dropped off at Autoplan brokers. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/lifestyles/389536851.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/847e59a0cb8fcaf7e3a0558db12b1abc02067499771a44d885fdd63b44e25d2a.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:14:20 | null | null | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fsports%2F390057481.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/53227mission11846755_924177544320825_624654361032086536_n.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Mission hosting disc golf event | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Mission's Eighteen Pastures hosts the BC disc golf doubles championship tournament on Sunday.
BY: BEN LYPKA/BLACK PRESS
The Fraser Valley Disc Golf Club is celebrating its 20th birthday, and is inviting the entire community to the party.
The 2016 BC Doubles Disc Golf Championship occurs at the Eighteen Pastures golf course in Mission on Sunday, with the top disc golfers in the province battling in B.C.'s largest disc golf doubles competition.
The event will be played in a brand new 20 hole course using the east side of the golf course.
Doubles disc golf events see both team members take a shot, and continue the course by choosing the better lie of the two shots.
Event organizers promise prize giveaways, a 50/50 draw and plenty of other surprises.
The event features $5,000 in cash and prizes to be shared with the winners.
Last year's championship saw 76 competitors from all across B.C. and Washington State duel over 36 holes.
Registration for the event begins early on Sunday morning, with the first golfers hitting the links at 9:30 a.m.
The event is expected to run until 5 p.m., with an awards ceremony following the final results.
For more on the event, visit discbc.com. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/sports/390057481.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/e2f367e87e77e516e83b322323343728c7cf00ec7a16aea9485850f95a714c17.json |
[
"Kelvin"
] | 2016-08-26T13:07:59 | null | null | Camp for sick children is always happy to receive donations of all types | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fcommunity%2F390040731.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/42582abbotsfordZAJAC.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Zajac Ranch welcomes hundreds of campers each year, but wants more | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Zajac Ranch campers are encouraged to challenged themselves to the limits they choose.
Despite exponential growth in its 12 years of existence, Mission's Zajac Ranch still has room for more kids, but it needs help fulfilling that goal.
In 2014, its first year, Zajac welcomed 50 campers with life-threatening and chronic illnesses. It now takes in approximately 500 children over the course of its one to two week sessions throughout the summer.
The camp's president, Carmen Zajac, said it was her father's dream to start a camp for children with all types of medical issues, a first of its kind in the region.
"As long as they can get an OK from their [doctor], then they're good to go," said Zajac. "We get children that are on feeding tubes, we get paraplegics, quadriplegics, non-verbal children and they all get to participate in the activities to the level that they can."
To illustrate the kind of effect the camp experience can have on participants, Zajac tells the story of a boy with Tourette syndrome – a neurological disorder that causes someone to have involuntary movements or vocalizations – who first came to Zajac Ranch when he was 8 years old.
The boy felt ostracized because he was often kicked out of places for involuntarily shouting. He was welcomed at the camp and kept coming back year after year, said Zajac.
At 15, he became a leader in training for two summers and is now a counselor.
Zajac recalled a recent conversation with the boy, who told her: "This camp didn't just change my life, it saved my life."
"And that just gives shivers up my spine, when I head that," said Zajac. "And that's what we hope comes from camp."
The camp has benefited from the support of many donors both corporate and private over the years.
In 2011, longtime sponsor Telus installed high-speed fibre-optic internet to the property, something Zajac said has helped the camp operate better and attract more campers.
The ranch previously had a very slow dial-up connection which made it hard for its staff and volunteers to stay in contact with campers' doctors and parents.
Zajac said many parents find it reassuring to know they can be in direct contact with Zajac Ranch for updates on their child. She said many campers come from across the country and, for some, it's their first time ever sleeping away from their parents.
Zajac said she is very grateful for the donations, sponsorships and technology the ranch has received from Telus over the years (a $770,000 value, according to the company).
Another revenue stream for the ranch comes from renting out its property to private and corporate functions in its off-season.
Zajac said the camp currently has a gross annual revenue of $600,000 from its various sources but that comes short of its $750,000 operating costs. Once that gap is closed, the camp will be able to achieve its goal of not charging any campers' families to come.
The camp can also often use material possessions, especially building supplies, according to Zajac.
Those wishing to rent the property, donate, volunteer or contact Zajac Ranch can do so through its website. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/community/390040731.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/70ae987e0661ff07a868c669af75d7314072769aa82c1dbb76e9f02afd3820f2.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:07:01 | null | null | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fcommunity%2F390012541.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/33276missionParasail2.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | PHOTO: Come parasail away | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Solal Audibert practised his parasail take-off skills Friday evening from the top of the hill at Heritage Park. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/community/390012541.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/55a1de56b6b4e2c3e32178aafe00a2b83601a4ed97df531657e9567ebb801811.json |
[
"Tom Fletcher"
] | 2016-08-26T13:01:16 | null | null | Premier Christy Clark protests to Prime minister Justin Trudeau about latest claims of softwood subsidy | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fbusiness%2F387881572.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/80455BCLN2007wfpmillworkers7web.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | U.S. Senators 'inaccurate' on lumber claim: Premiers | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Canada's softwood lumber agreement with the U.S. expired last fall, and U.S. interests are pushing to reduce the share allowed to go south.
Premier Christy Clark and other provincial and territorial leaders have written to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, asking him to refute the latest lumber trade action by U.S. interests.
"Unfair and inaccurate allegations of Canadian lumber subsidies" have been made by 25 U.S. Senators to U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman, seeking a reduction in the cap on Canadian lumber sales, the premiers wrote from their meeting in Whitehorse this week.
The premiers cited decisions by the World Trade Organization and NAFTA in 2006 that found Canadian subsidies to be less than one per cent and ineligible for trade action.
Trudeau and U.S. President Barack Obama reported progress on negotiating a new softwood lumber deal after their meeting in Ottawa in late June.
Trudeau and Obama's joint statement acknowledged the increase in cross-border ownership of forest products producers, and said a key feature a new agreement would be "designed to maintain Canadian exports at or below an agreed US. market share to be negotiated."
The last Canada-U.S. softwood lumber agreement expired in the fall of 2015, leaving trade unrestricted as Canadian producers benefit from a stronger U.S. dollar and housing construction. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/business/387881572.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/248211b2b047ef8986189f850410815c27022bb188f39fb0d7488369374894e3.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:04 | null | null | Hundreds of picnickers arrived early at Hayward Lake to find the best spots to set up their camp for the day. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Flifestyles%2F389305891.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/73772mission20160730_7945.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | PHOTOS: Beating the summer heat in Mission | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Overflow crowds enjoyed the sunshine at Hayward Lake Park Saturday afternoon on the BC Day long weekend.
Overflow crowds enjoyed the sunshine at Hayward Lake Park Saturday afternoon on the BC Day long weekend.
Hundreds of picnickers arrived early to find the best spots to set up their camp for the day.
The Milne family brought their kayaks and paddle board to enjoy the beautiful water of Hayward Lake and even took their dog Buddy for a ride. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/lifestyles/389305891.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/abccaaf11f0a079a112d1a6df81754b2d0d2d8c198b826d7d0a38e72011738d0.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:17 | null | null | The BC Sports Car Club hosted an event on June 11-12 at the Mission Raceway and the Mission Hospice Society benefited. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Flifestyles%2F387031531.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/26779missionHospicedonate.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Mission Hospice receives $3,500 from car club | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | The Mission Hospice Society received a cheque for $3,500 thanks to the BC Sports Car Club.
The BC Sports Car Club hosted an event on June 11-12 at the Mission Raceway and the Mission Hospice Society was the group’s charity of choice.
Through various raffles at the event and from gate sales, the car club donated just over $3,500 to the society.
The society’s next fundraising race event is on Aug. 20-21 at Mission Raceway.
The public can come down and take a ride on one of the vintage cars on the race track. All proceeds with benefit the Mission Hospice Society. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/lifestyles/387031531.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/8f6421f491e18ec0a749c1233a659be5b80fcb7f1deaaa5c01d439d1e206d19f.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:14:39 | null | null | Lacrosse player scores two goals in national tournament to help team capture second place. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fsports%2F389231011.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/32719missionlacrosse3.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Mission’s Teagen Dunnett wins silver in Calgary | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Mission’s Teagen Dunnett battles for the ball during the Female National Box Lacrosse Championships in Calgary late last month.
Ben Lypka
Abbotsford News
Mission’s Teagen Dunnett has returned home from Calgary with a new piece of hardware.
Dunnett, who plays for the Mission Minor Lacrosse Club, earned a silver medal as a part of Team B.C. at the Female National Box Lacrosse Championships late last month.
She suited up for Team B.C. starting on July 18, with B.C. battling Alberta and Ontario in the round robin. The team played a total of five round-robin games over the first three days of the event, winning twice and then moving on to the championship rounds on July 22 and 23.
B.C. defeated Alberta 4-2 in the opening round of the playoffs, and then lost to Ontario in the finals to close out the tournament.
Bennett recorded two goals during the event, including the opening goal in B.C.’s first round-robin win against Alberta. She also scored the team’s lone goal in the gold-medal loss to Ontario.
Dunnett, 12, was one of 20 females out of 66 to make the team after a strong showing at tryouts in Langley in June.
Her Mission Sasquatch Bantam A teammate Trace Recsky, also named to Team B.C., heads to the Male National Box Lacrosse Championships in Saskatoon, which wraps up on Saturday.
The goalie will man the nets as B.C. battles Ontario, Alberta, First Nations, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia and Manitoba. B.C. plays six round-robin games against every other club at the tournament, before the playoffs kick off.
Read next week’s edition of the Mission City Record for news on how Recksy and the Team B.C. bantam boys team fares in Saskatoon. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/sports/389231011.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/c9e9d3b2b6222a4a107c7163a91e54264c37779117dae8e285b561ccfd87b40c.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T14:51:11 | null | null | Catholics converged on Mission's Fraser River Heritage Park on the weekend as part of the annual celebration. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fcommunity%2F391355161.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/74632missionPilgramage20160820_8796.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Annual pilgrimage attracts huge crowd | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Hundreds of Catholics descended upon Mission’s Fraser River Heritage Park on Saturday for the annual Pilgrimage to the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes.
Hundreds of Catholics descended upon Mission’s Fraser River Heritage Park on Saturday for the annual Pilgrimage to the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes.
Confessions began at 10 a.m. followed by a celebration of the Eucharist at 1 p.m.
After the mass, the procession (pictured above) to the grotto took place. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/community/391355161.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/a338ec3bdeecd5fad802955d9d2b0aa969d407f5ccefc0b32d8b8778230f2a21.json |
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"Kevin Mills"
] | 2016-08-29T20:51:26 | null | null | Sometime this weekend, vandals broke into the Mission Hospice Society's property, damages some fencing along the pond, and flooded the yard. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fnews%2F391650271.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/45786missionhospicevandals.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Vandals flood Mission Hospice backyard, kill more than 100 fish | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Angel Elias, executive director of the Mission Hospice Society, stands beside the koi pond that was vandalized and flooded over the weekend.
Vandals struck the Mission Hospice Society office on the weekend, flooding the backyard and killing more than 100 koi fish.
Angel Elias, executive director of the society said her husband arrived at the office, located in a house on Hillcrest Avenue across from Mission Memorial Hospital, on Sunday to find the backyard pond flooded, security fence damaged and beer bottles and dead fish scattered all along the yard.
“Sometime on Friday, some people came here, put our garden hose in the pond, flooded it, killed all of the koi. Sat here drinking, put their beer bottles all over the yard and then, because they left the hose on even after they left, flooded the whole backyard,” said Elias.
“All the fish basically floated out of the pond and died on the gravel.”
Then raccoons came and ate the dead fish.
While the hospice has security lights and video camera on the premises, little could be seen to help identify any suspects.
“This is how smart these people were. They saw that we had surveillance cameras so they flashed a light right on the camera so I can’t see for the three hour period they were there,” said Elias.
A camera on the front of the building did catch a vehicle pulling up into the hospice driveway at about 10 p.m. Friday night, but the license plate could not be seen.
Mission RCMP were contacted and Elias said they will try and do some extra patrols.
“There’s not much more they can do,” said Elias who is concerned that the vandals may return.
“This is absurd. I have to start shutting the water off when we leave.”
Fortunately for the society, the community is already rallying around them. The Mission-based Mr. Pets store has offered to lend them a hand.
“Mr. Pets has totally saved the day. Monica (store manager Monica Pierce) phoned me up and I just came back from there and she gave me 50 goldfish to start with and in the springtime she’s going to hook me up with some koi,” said a thankful Elias.
Pierce was only too happy to help the hospice.
“My partner passed away in hospice two years ago this September, so I didn’t hesitate. They did awesome by me so I in turn will gladly help out,” said Pierce.
Two Good Samaritans, named Pat and Gail, also came by the office and donated four koi.
“They saw the post on Facebook,” said Elias. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/news/391650271.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/35efa7f894d4fef8766c0b63f3939d8863b24ca583deb4b9234916226244874c.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:06:11 | null | null | The Twilight series returns to the park on Wednesday, July 27, when Yukon Blues musician Brandon Isaak hits the stage. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fentertainment%2F387864732.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/70646missiontwilight.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Sound of a one-man band comes to Mission's Twilight stage | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Yukon Blues musician Brandon Isaak hits the Twilight stage on July 27 at 7 p.m. Isaak is a one-man band who plays a foot-operated drum kit, harmonica, guitar and vocals.
There is no Envision Financial Twilight concert on Friday night as the 29th annual Mission Folk Music Festival kicks off a weekend of music, art, and family fun at Fraser River Heritage Park.
The festivities get underway at 7 p.m. and tonight the admission is by donation. The festival continues on Saturday with the anniversary price of $29 per person.
The Twilight series returns to the park on Wednesday, July 27, when Yukon Blues musician Brandon Isaak hits the stage.
He is a one-man band playing a foot-operated drum kit, harmonica, guitar and vocals. His original blues songs ring with authenticity and wit.
Isaak floats seamlessly from country blues “Mississippi Sheiks” style to gospel, Piedmont and beyond.
Fraser River Heritage Park is the perfect setting for Isaak’s music. It evokes the notion of an itinerant bluesman, guitar slung across his back as he travels dusty roads and sings for his supper.
Isaak has been nominated for a number of awards, most recently the Maple Blues Award in 2015. It should be a memorable night at the park.
Bring the family down to take in the music, and enjoy exceptional treats from the Log Cabin Concession. The Mission Arts Council will be setting up its Art in the Park. Local artists and artisans will be on the gazebo highlighting the talent Mission has to offer.
The concert gets underway at 7 p.m. and the parking is free, thanks to the hard-working folks from the Mission Special Olympics team. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/entertainment/387864732.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/ec041d07595d1650526a45f21ff683b3d7858dc2e9b29fc8ebe1fe940feb8a07.json |
[
"John Arendt"
] | 2016-08-26T13:12:11 | null | null | B.C. Day, on Monday, Aug. 1, is an opportunity to celebrate this spectacular province. See how well you know British Columbia. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Flifestyles%2F388492001.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/60468summerlandimage.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | B.C. DAY TRIVIA QUIZ: How much do you know about British Columbia? | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | B.C. Day, on Monday, Aug. 1, is an opportunity to celebrate this spectacular province. See how well you know British Columbia. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/lifestyles/388492001.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/89c0d1536eb8ecb1119f715a5b9fee502ee94f7067f3bec598a93ab58ab44e46.json |
[
"Tom Fletcher"
] | 2016-08-26T13:13:43 | null | null | Premier Christy Clark has pulled out the duct tape to fix up rural schools, school buses and the minimum wage | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fopinion%2F390325601.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/3565BCLN2007ClarkOakesruralschools7web.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | BC VIEWS: Premier Red Green’s fast fixes | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | A totally spontaneous expression of gratitude breaks out for Premier Christy Clark and Cariboo North MLA Coralee Oakes at the Quesnel rodeo after a rural school fund was announced in June.
Comedian Steve Smith, better known as Red Green, is touring B.C. in September, reprising his popular TV series in which he fixes every conceivable problem with duct tape.
Green’s “I’m Not Old I’m Ripe” tour hits Chilliwack, Victoria, Nanaimo, Courtenay, Surrey, Vernon, Kelowna and Prince George.
His formula for deploying the handyman’s secret weapon has proven so popular that Premier Christy Clark may have been inspired. She’s had quite a flurry of hasty repairs in the last few months. Here’s a recap.
The B.C. minimum wage was starting to lag behind other provinces, even after the overhaul it received in 2015, where annual increases are tied to inflation.
Like Red’s truck tires, there has been a lack of inflation, and a surge of government spending back east leaving B.C. in the dust. B.C.’s wage rose 20 cents last year and was set to go up by another whole dime this fall.
There was that familiar ripping sound in May as Clark and Jobs Minister Shirley Bond announced the September increase will be patched up to 40 cents, with another 40-cent increase next fall. Two wraps should hold it until after the election.
Remember the episode where Red taped two old Hyundai Ponies side by side to make a handyman’s Hummer? The school system has seen that kind of work in recent months.
The first roll was applied by Education Minister Mike Bernier when he announced in March that the ministry’s “fix-it fund” was going from $35 million to $40 million. Then in mid-May, he announced 80 successful projects. The “fix-it fund” had fattened to $45 million, and Bernier was just getting his sleeves rolled up.
Hey school districts, remember the $25 million in “administrative savings” the ministry demanded for the second year in a row? Now that you’ve squeezed that from your budgets, Bernier’s good news at the end of May was that the government’s giving it back to use for “front line services for students.”
One of those services could be “maintaining schools despite falling enrolment in certain regions,” Bernier announced May 31, foreshadowing the next layer of repairs.
Sure enough, a “rural schools fund” was rolled out on June 15. Clark and Cariboo North MLA Coralee Oakes made the announcement in Quesnel, where Kersley and Parkland elementary schools were going to close.
Also eligible for a special fund was Okanagan-Similkameen, where Osoyoos high school students were going to be bused a half hour to Oliver. This is hardly unusual in rural schooling around B.C., but these are swing ridings, you see.
Kootenay Lake district declined the opportunity to keep Yahk elementary open, with an anticipated fall enrolment of zero students. This all comes during the annual ritual combat between the ministry and Vancouver school board over keeping half-empty schools open.
Bernier had one more roll in his overalls. School bus service, one of those things jettisoned or saddled with hundreds of dollars in fees per student as districts scraped up those “administrative savings,” was selectively saved with another $15 million fund announced last week.
There have been a few other country fixes. They’re not going to ban weddings on farms any more, for instance.
That old jalopy in the back yard you’ve been trying to soup up and get back on the road? Soon you can get a collector plate for that thing, which is perfect if you can only get it running once or twice a year.
To paraphrase Red, if the voters don’t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.
Tom Fletcher is B.C. legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Email: tfletcher@blackpress.ca Twitter: @tomfletcherbc | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/opinion/390325601.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/686e610a09d9086d1dfb5dd8d591fe0d8801aac54ad635a10514250c5a3aeaf3.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:08:25 | null | null | The Abbotsford International Airshow takes place Aug. 12-14 and includes US Navy Super Hornets and the Breitling Jet Team | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fcommunity%2F389322101.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/80542abbotsfordMosquito_Mustang_ABBOTSFORDAIRSHOW_McAllister_Surrey.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Abbotsford Airshow: Heroes of the Skies | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | By JIM REITH, President Abbotsford Airshow
It is my pleasure to welcome you to the 2016 Abbotsford International Airshow – Heroes of the Skies! Gadgets, special suits, technology and the coolest flying machines… Learn what it takes to be a HERO at the 2016 Abbotsford International Airshow!
From August 12-14, Heroes of the Skies take flight over the Fraser Valley for the 54th annual Abbotsford International Airshow. Watch in awe as we welcome back the world-class Breitling Jet Team from Europe in the second and final year of their North American tour. Explore the McDonald’s Kids Zone and Science World on the Road! Experience Friday’s twilight show and fireworks finale! And, watch in awe as the Screamin’ Sasquatch Jet Waco, Boeing and US Navy Super Hornets, Snowbirds, Skyhawks and others take to the sky!
The Airshow is pleased to welcome the involvement of several key players in the aviation industry, including Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Eurofighter and more. Spectators will see Boeing’s involvement in dramatic fashion – as the aerospace giant will bring two jets to do corporate flying demos with a full array of simulated weapons, a simulation trailer and the test pilot will be available to talk about the exceptional capabilities of the aircraft. Lockheed Martin and Eurofighter are also on-site in various capacities with educational and promotional pieces.
“An aspect of the Airshow’s strategic vision is to strengthen key partnerships with aerospace organizations such as AIAC Pacific who produce an annual Aerospace & Defence trade show in conjunction with our airshow, and the CBAA which will hold its annual convention next year at Abbotsford in conjunction with the airshow as well. Looking to the future, we expect the Abbotsford Airshow will have a major aerospace trade show event occurring in the days prior to the public weekend show in the style of Farnborough and Paris airshows.”
Heroes of the Skies tell the stories of everyday women and men who work hard to make the world a better place, in their own communities and beyond. We are proud to honour them at this year’s Abbotsford International Airshow! Tickets for this action-packed weekend are available at Save-On-Foods or by clicking abbotsfordairshow.com.
Next Generation BC Amateur Photographer of the Year
Finalists for this year’s 4th annual Next Generation BC Amateur Photographer of the Year contest have now been selected. From Vernon to Victoria and from Surrey to Smithers, seventy finalists have been chosen from all corners of BC to move forward and compete in an intense competition at the Abbotsford International Airshow, where they will race against the clock to complete daily photo challenges. Finalists will shoot 10 of their best photographs and/or videos, to be reviewed by a judging panel — one will come out with the title of 2016 Next Generation Amateur Photographer of the Year. Almost 3,000 entries were received from 80 B.C. communities.
Whether you’re a finalist or not, this is a show you won’t want to miss: The Abbotsford International Airshow is world-renowned for its prestigious performers and family-friendly entertainment. The 2016 Airshow on August 12th through 14th will feature two jet teams, (Snowbirds and the European Breitling Jet Teams ) a Friday twilight show with fireworks, the Canadian Forces Skyhawks parachute team, and the US military jet, the Super Hornet to name but a few. More details visit www.abbotsfordairshow.com.
CLICK HERE FOR INTERACTIVE AIRSHOW SPECIAL INCLUDING VIDEO
Photographhs by Ken McAllister - 2015 Next Generation Amateur Photographer of the Year. Photographs featured from the 2015 Abbotsford Airshow.
Congratulations to all of the finalists in the 2016 Next Generation Amateur Photographer of the Year contest, sponsored by London Drugs, the Abbotsford International Airshow, and Black Press. To see photo gallery click here. See you there! | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/community/389322101.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/ecf537ae1b4a40904f048b06a46091000c9aeba84947b05fe14e81e749df7cad.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:06:46 | null | null | The group’s repertoire covers the standards of Emmy Lou Harris and Don Williams to the sounds of Faith Hill and Martina McBride. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fentertainment%2F388283341.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/23975missionNikkiWerner.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Nikki Werner Band performs on Twilight stage | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | The Envision Financial Twilight Summer Series continues on tonight (Friday) with the Nikki Werner Band at 7 p.m. at Fraser River Heritage Park.
Hailing from the Fraser Valley, the Nikki Werner Band is a four-time B.C. Country music award nominee and a favorite at the Twilight concerts. The group’s repertoire covers the standards of Emmy Lou Harris and Don Williams to the sounds of Faith Hill and Martina McBride.
The band has also produced a number of original tunes that have garnered a great deal of praise with the country music fans. Their musicianship is undeniable and their concerts are a high energy, feel good experience.
August begins with local favorite John Welsh who returns to the concert stage on Wednesday, August 3. John’s natural command of the stage brings a ray of sunshine to any performance.
With a sound that blends high energy Latin, West African, reggae and folk rock rhythms, he can enchants the crowd from the first chord. He cites influences such as Ben Harper, Sam Roberts and Joel Plaskett. His toe-tapping tunes immediately put one in mind of happy times and sunny beaches.
The Envision Financial Twilight Concerts are every Wednesday and Friday evenings at 7 p.m. and the concerts are free.
Come on down to the park, bring a lawn chair, bring a blanket and the whole family for a wonderful Mission experience. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/entertainment/388283341.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/e1218608335179118a2e734701c60eb3b5d61c16cb3b8814f85ccffa9be59557.json |
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"Kevin Mills"
] | 2016-08-26T13:09:12 | null | null | In November of 2010, Joshua Bowe went missing from the Deroche area. He was never seen again. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fnews%2F390967181.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/6011missionpressconferemce.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Two men charged with murder in connection with the disappearance of Mission's Joshua Bowe | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Insp. Donna Richardson, officer in charge of the provincial unsolved homicide unit, speaks to the media during Monday's press conference regarding the murder of Joshua Bowe of Mission.
Murder charges have been filed in connection with the disappearance of Mission’s Joshua Bowe who went missing six years ago.
Charges have been filed against two B.C. men following an investigation by the Provincial Unsolved Homicide Unit.
The men, who were youths at the time of the offence and cannot be named, have been charged with first degree murder. Investigators believe that Bowe and the individuals charged, knew each other at the time of Bowe’s death.
One of the men has also been charged with accessory after the fact, according to Insp. Donna Richardson, officer in charge of the provincial unsolved homicide unit.
In November 2010, the Mission RCMP were contacted and told that Bowe was missing.
“Investigators soon began to suspect that foul play was involved in Joshua’s disappearance and the file was transfered to the Integrated Homicide Investigative team in February 2011,” said Richardson at a news conference held Monday afternoon.
She said evidence gathered early in the investigation led officers to believe that Joshua and whoever was responsible for his disappearance knew each other and that his disappearance was not a random act.
“For this reason, and in order to protect the integrity of the investigation, we did not publicly disclose that we no longer considered Joshua to simply be missing.”
Richarson also told reporters that Bowe’s remains were recovered a “short time ago” but would not say where or when.
While charges are now before the court, the unsolved homicide unit continues to investigate all outstanding leads.
In November of 2010, Bowe was reported missing by his grandmother, Hope Bowe who last saw the 21-year-old on his birthday, Nov. 12, 2010. She became worried when she didn’t hear from him the next week.
Josh lived in Silverdale but was last seen in Deroche. He was living under the care of the Community Living program and had a suite above Fredeen’s shop.
Josh made his way to Deroche Nov. 18 on foot to visit a friend and was seen the next day by his community living worker, who drove him back to his friend’s house. Josh reportedly went to the store and never returned.
During Monday’s press conference, Insp. Richardson read a statement from Josh’s grandmother.
“The last time I saw Joshua was on his 21st birthday. When we discovered he was missing, what surprised me so much was how many people knew him and cared. I want to thank all of those people, as well as the RCMP and other police forces that helped me to find Joshua. After six years I know he can’t come home anymore and I miss him. He meant everything to me. I wish I could hate the two boys who did this, but their futures’ look so scary and there are two other families who are also coming to terms with this. I can only imagine how they feel.”
Mission RCMP Insp. Ted De Jager was also on hand at the press conference, but did not address the media. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/news/390967181.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/f9a2b348848e68e88f4040816f8714ec6264bb07994f94cb551508dbe5de8287.json |
[] | 2016-08-29T18:51:46 | null | null | About 70 spectators were given exciting rides around the track in vintage racing cars. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fcommunity%2F391635901.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/40450missionhosicerace.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Racers raise $5,000 for Mission Hospice Society | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Mission Hospice Society spent the weekend of August 20-21 at Mission Raceway as part of the BC Historic Motor Races, hosted by the Vintage Racing Club of BC.
During the lunch breaks of both days, almost 70 spectators were given exciting rides around the track in vintage racing cars. And on Sunday ADESA Richmond drew a large crowd for their live auction of a wide range of fun items. These and other activities over the weekend raised almost $5,000 which was donated to Mission Hospice.
“We are so pleased that the car clubs that come to this track have decided to support us and have been so generous to us over the past few years,” said Angel Elias, executive director of the society. “It’s a great thing to have community groups coming together to put on events like this and people donating their time to drive people around the track.” | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/community/391635901.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/3a99c6166678384c956b1d48543344d7a5ec890371a06d14f859c05bafdb6d75.json |
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"Shannon Lough"
] | 2016-08-26T13:10:19 | null | null | Two months after having an endoscopy Joan Dudoward received a letter telling her that the endoscope used was not cleaned properly. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fnews%2F391353941.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/73852princerupertWEB.Joan-Dudoward.SL.35.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | VIDEO: Prince Rupert woman treated with unclean medical equipment, Northern Health, B.C. Centre for Disease Control confirms more than a hundred affected | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | A routine check-up at the hospital has turned into a nightmare for a Prince Rupert woman.
A month-and-a-half after having an endoscopy to inspect her nose and throat, Joan Dudoward received a letter from Northern Health stating that the endoscope used at the Prince Rupert Regional Hospital was not cleaned properly.
From April until the end of June 2016, the endoscope, which is a flexible tube with a light and a camera used in nonsurgical procedures, was being cleaned with the wrong cleaning solution to disinfect the equipment. There were 104 patients affected and Dudoward was one of them.
“I was majorly stressed out,” she said in an exclusive interview with the Northern View. “I'm a cancer survivor. I try to keep my health up for my mom, I'm a caregiver for a 95-year-old woman.”
Dudoward had gone to the Prince Rupert hospital for an endoscopy on June 29 at 3:30 p.m. after complaining to her physician about reoccurring plugged ears and a sore throat. She received the letter from Northern Health on Aug.24, which stated the error did not impact the diagnostic outcome of the tests and the process error has been corrected.
The letter also states that the BC Centre for Disease Control has been consulted and “the risk of a patient being exposed to a virus as a result of this process error is extremely low.” The contact number for the director of acute care services is offered in case she has any other questions or concerns. Dudoward has many.
She called to find out why the instrument wasn't cleaned, what had happened and how many people had gone through the procedure before and after her. “She said she's not permitted to tell me anything about this,” was the response Dudoward said she received.
The vice-president of medicine for the Northern Health authority, Dr. Ronald Chapman, was quick to respond to media inquiries and stressed the importance of transparency. He said, based on previous experience, once they realized the mistake had occurred they consulted the BC Centre for Disease Control as well as the Northern Health infectious disease specialist in Prince George.
“The risk for the patient is extremely low. We're not concerned that it will at all have any negative impact on their health,” Dr. Chapman said. He added that it's Northern Health's policy to make patients aware even if the risk to them is low. “We believe it's important to be open with those patients and to be fairly transparent so at least they are aware of the mistake. In this case, we don't recommend any particular follow up or tests for the patients.”
This type of process error has happened before, Dr. Chapman confirmed. Not with the same scope, but he said there are many different endoscopes used and each are made by different manufacturers that have various recommendations on how to clean the equipment.
“The health sector is run by human beings and it's fairly complex. If mistakes do happen what we encourage our staff to do is to make management aware so they can learn from that experience,” he said. “I'm happy to say where those mistakes have happened in our environment, a process has been put in place and we haven't had any repetitions after some of those learning experiences.”
For the 104 patients that were affected by this incident, Dr. Chapman said their general practitioners have been notified and if they have any questions they can speak to them and the infectious disease specialist. They can also contact Northern Health's Patient Care Quality Officeto register a complaint.
For Dudoward, who had a bone marrow transplant in 2011 to battle leukemia, she is concerned and has already scheduled a meeting with her physician in early September.
“I'm thinking that my body is not going to be able to fight off infection like I was able to before the cancer because chemo takes a lot out of your body so this is like a bomb exploding in my life,” she said. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/news/391353941.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/9710019aaaa0537a2c3c7bf1560670f833e6fbdf642c73d0101d23e479eea0fc.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:10:57 | null | null | Residential break-ins are down five per cent in the first half of the year but business break-and-enters are up. Auto theft is also up. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fnews%2F391298101.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/50617missionpolice1.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Reducing property crime in Mission a priority for RCMP | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Reducing property crime is a major focus of Mission RCMP in 2016 according to Insp. Ted De Jager.
Frank Bucholtz
Black Press
Reducing property crime is a major focus of Mission RCMP in 2016, Insp. Ted De Jager reported to council last week (Aug. 15).
In general, the focus seems to be working. Property crime in the first half of the year is down one per cent from 2015, and down 10 per cent from the first quarter to the second. However, theft from vehicles is up 23 per cent in the first half of the year, when compared to 2015.
De Jager said this is not unusual, as people are out more often as the weather improves and thieves target vehicles where valuables are left in sight.
A check of more than 26,000 vehicles showed that many had valuables in sight. Police try to urge people to keep their valuables out of sight and not offer thieves opportunities, but “we haven’t had a lot of success in getting that message across.”
One well-known suspect was observed by police attempting to break in to more than 50 vehicles. She was arrested after gaining entry to a vehicle and has now been sentenced to one year in jail.
Residential break-ins are down five per cent in the first half of the year but business break-and-enters are up. Auto theft is also up.
An eight-month operation was conducted against a property crime suspect, who was “at the centre of all things property crime-related in Mission.” He is facing several charges of possession of stolen property and drug offences.
De Jager said the man has been evicted from the area due to enforcement, and his operations “have been significantly disrupted.”
De Jager’s report said the creation of a Prolific Offender Suppression Team (POST) has had a positive effect. He told council that the POST team tracks prolific offenders closely. Many have conditions attached to their parole or sentences, and POST is able to note breaches and have them returned to jail.
Operation Valley Sweep was also noted. This was a joint project of Abbotsford Police and the Upper Fraser Valley RCMP regional detachment.
The seven-member team worked throughout the Upper Fraser Valley to target the most prolific multi-jurisdictional offenders. In three months, there were over 500 street checks, 123 self-generated files and 92 arrests. A total of 54 people were charged with 91 separate offences. Thirty-three were referred for addiction treatment.
Mayor Randy Hawes said the co-operative work among the various law enforcement agencies had great results, and he hopes police will continue to do such work to target criminals who do not respect jurisdictional boundaries. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/news/391298101.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/bce2206c0fd97f2ac7840c350e0224316f9bb848516951718037cac5634b409e.json |
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"Tom Fletcher"
] | 2016-08-26T13:13:27 | null | null | Who's behind Prince Rupert anti-LNG protest camp? A father, his son, and their U.S. foundation backers [WITH VIDEO] | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fopinion%2F387478741.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/28242BCLN2007DonnyWesleyJrwire7web.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | BC VIEWS: Tree-spikers cling to Lelu Island | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | In a frame from protesters' video, Donald Wesley Jr. walks through a geotechnical testing area on Lelu Island near Prince Rupert. 'We have a lot of spikes put on this island,' he says.
Amanda Stanley, “science program officer” for the Seattle-based Wilberforce Foundation, headed up to Prince Rupert a couple of weeks ago to check on one of her projects.
That would be the camp on Lelu Island where a splinter group of Tsimshian tribal members and supporters maintain an effort to blockade and disrupt testing required for an environmental permit application to construct a liquefied natural gas terminal.
Stanley tweeted a picture from the camp, looking past a Mohawk warrior flag at the coastline. “So inspired by these defenders of land, water and salmon,” she wrote.
Wilberforce, the California-based Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Hawaii-based Sustainable Fisheries Partnership and others have poured money into anti-LNG campaigns in B.C., as they funded opposition to oilsands development before them. Indeed, the record suggests the long project to establish what environmental front groups named the Great Bear Rainforest was a strategy to stop hydrocarbon exports from western Canada, even as U.S. sources ramped up production.
So what’s been going on at this “science program” on Lelu Island? Its own multi-media promotion material provides some glimpses, featuring sweeping allegations and efforts to block scientific evaluation with crude threats and intimidation.
A video series called “A Last Stand for Lelu” shows two self-styled warriors confronting drilling vessels. Their RCMP escort boat suggests these ships and habitat study crews had federal permits to conduct testing at the time.
[Watch video below.]
One man, identified as Donald Wesley Jr., walks the island with a rifle over his shoulder. Among his claims is that the drilling isn’t for testing, but is actually the start of construction on the Pacific Northwest LNG terminal, which still awaits a decision from the Trudeau cabinet.
Wesley says that since crews didn’t present permits to him personally, “they’re the radicals. They’re the extremists. They’re the terrorists.”
Then he describes his preparations.
“We have a lot of stuff on the island to keep [away] helicopters and drillers, the geotech drillers that want to come onto the island and start borehole testing,” he says. “We have a lot of spikes put on this island.”
OK, who’s the extremist?
The video series is co-produced by a fellow named Tamo Campos, identified as a representing “Beyond Boarding,” with a link to an expired website.
Campos came to prominence in B.C. protest circles during the recent oil pipeline standoff at Burnaby Mountain. He appeared with his grandfather David Suzuki and other well-known protesters in a carefully choreographed show of entering a court-ordered restraining zone and briefly being arrested.
Again, they were interfering with authorized scientific testing while attempting to create the impression for media of grassroots opposition.
Wesley, his father Donald Wesley Sr. and a supporter from Hartley Bay named Matthew Danes, claim to represent hereditary chiefs. In June, a dozen Tsimshian hereditary chiefs and elders issued a letter stating that Wesley Sr. “took it upon himself to occupy Lelu Island solely on his own accord” and doesn’t represent the community.
“We do not appreciate Mr. Wesley inviting environmental militants and outsiders into our territory without the respect and manners dictated by the protocols of our ayaawyx [laws],” they wrote.
The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency and the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office required Pacific Northwest LNG to consult with five aboriginal communities. The Metlakatla, Kitselas, Kitsumkalum and Gitxaala bands have benefit agreements for the project signed or in progress. The lone holdout, Lax Kw’alaams, elected a new council last fall that embraced the project with conditions.
And 40 Lax Kw’alaams students just graduated from pre-apprentice training sponsored by the provincial and federal governments and the UA Piping Industry College of B.C.
Tom Fletcher is B.C. legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Email: tfletcher@blackpress.ca Twitter: @tomfletcherbc
A LAST STAND FOR LELU - PART 7: Warriors from VoVo Productions on Vimeo. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/opinion/387478741.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/18e8701814b7b887110120dbc4288009edc5f84c897d17f8c6f6d97f94b05d59.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:07:45 | null | null | Many of the children are still on a waiting list for mentors through Big Brothers Big Sisters. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fcommunity%2F387315281.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/74758missionfirebigbros.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Mission firefighters mentor 'Littles' | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Several “Littles” from Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Fraser Valley enjoyed being mentored by Mission Fire Rescue last week.
Several “Littles” from Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Fraser Valley enjoyed being mentored by Mission Fire Rescue last week aspart of the agency’s Local Heroes day camp.
The children, many of whom are on the wait list for a mentor, got to participate in avariety of activities including spraying the fire hose and trying on gear.
The camp was partially funded by Mission CommunityFoundation, allowing kids to participate in fun afternoon activities including swimming at the Mission Leisure Centre and visitingCultus Lake Waterpark. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/community/387315281.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/823f3d97acd9e3080032781288ab049151b7589e7850c8b0363de426833730d9.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:09:01 | null | null | Roots of the Mission congregation began in the Matsqui community of Abbotsford | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fcommunity%2F387948822.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/19332abbotsfordMtCalvaryChurch.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church celebrates 60th anniversary | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church celebrates its 60th anniversary on July 30 and 31.
A church that started life as a outreach of Goshen Lutheran church in Matsqui is now celebrating its 60th anniversary.
Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church, located at 32420 Seventh Ave. in Mission, is marking its 60th anniversary with two days of celebration on July 30 and 31.
Lutherans in the central Fraser Valley had immigrated from Scandinavia and Germany and by the 1950s had established churches in Abbotsford, Matsqui and Whonnock.
In 1954, a survey conducted by the American Lutheran Church board discovered there were enough Lutherans living in Mission to establish a congregation.
Pastor Martin Knudson was called to serve both the Goshen Lutheran Church in Matsqui and a new congregation in Mission.
There were 35 people who attended the first service, held in the Odd Fellows Hall on Nov. 27, 1955, and the congregation was officially organized on April 15, 1956.
The congregation grew and became independent of the Matsqui congregation in 1972.
As the congregation grew, a larger building was needed and work began in 1982 on the current building. By late summer, volunteers had the roof on and the building enclosed.
An open house takes place at the church from 2 to 5 p.m. on July 30. This will be followed by a celebration banquet with Pastor Karl Keller.
The following day, there will be a praise and worship service at 10 a.m., followed by a free sandwich lunch.
If anyone had historic photos, or memorabilia of the congregation or would like banquet tickets, call the church office at 604 826 8587 or email mtclc@telus.net. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/community/387948822.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/640b5725cc142ebde967e59b7ea52caec07df4eee976fe4db76bec396d7e78f6.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T14:51:10 | null | null | Annual event raised more money then in previous years and attracted 73 participants. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fcommunity%2F391351181.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/72067missionHospice20160814_8680a.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Ride For Hospice called 'big success' | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | More than 70 people participated in the fourth annual Ride For Hospice poker run. The fundraiser for the Mission Hospice Society keeps growing every year and helps fund important programs for the local charity.
The fourth annual Ride for Hospice sponsored by Mission Hospice Society was a great success last weekend.
The event began and concluded at Heritage Park, with 73 people taking part on 53 motorcycles. Like last year, this ride was a poker run, with stops at the Sasquatch Inn in Agassiz and at Duke’s Pub in Chilliwack.
“It was a great success,” said Angel Elias, executive director of Mission Hospice.
“We raised more money than last year and we’d like to thank everybody who came out and took part in the event.”
The event has become a fundraising tradition for the society. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/community/391351181.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/cdb0d53d59f5b176cc71b75345b062867bb605e1af54edd783b3376e87d6cf59.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:10:09 | null | null | Mission RCMP have now turned the case over to the BC Coroners Service. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fnews%2F391324121.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/61549missionRCMP.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Body of missing kayaker recovered by Mission Search and Rescue | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | The body of a missing kayaker has been located by Search and Rescue according to a Mission RCMP press release.
On August 14, in the early afternoon, Mission RCMP and Mission Search and Rescue responded to a report of a missing kayaker on the Fraser River. Extensive resources were allocated to the search, which included four boats, several personnel and two planes.
Search and Rescue efforts continued over the following days resulting in the kayaker being located near the location where he was reported missing.
The investigation is now being assumed by the BC Coroners Service.
The Kayaker, Christopher Finlay, was reported missing to Mission RCMP after his two friends, who had been kayaking with him, found his overturned boat with no sign of him.
The group was kayaking on the Fraser River with two friends near the Yaalstrick Islands. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/news/391324121.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/26a1f211dd0e5b3ab161d7265b0d3b5181f6499ce2baa6baae575d2cb992c568.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T12:51:02 | null | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | Council has set aside an evening solely for a public hearing on Tuesday, Sept. 20 at the district hall. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fnews%2F391329301.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/63674missionScreenShot2016-08-25at1.09.09PM.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Gravel pit on Caswell Avenue a hot topic in Mission | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Frank Bucholtz
Mission Record
Mission council is anticipating a long and contentious public hearing on a plan to develop a gravel pit operation on Caswell Avenue, adjacent to the existing Shaw pit.
Council has set aside an evening solely for that public hearing on Tuesday, Sept. 20 at the district hall, a day after the regular council meeting and public hearing.
Kerr Properties has already held two public information sessions on its plan to mine and crush gravel from the pit. Many of the people who have attended the meetings expressed concerns about noise, truck traffic, dust and the potential effect on their water supply. The property is located in a rural area of Mission near Keystone Avenue, and there are a number of homes on larger acreages in the area.
It has been suggested that an existing private road through the Shaw pit could be used to keep truck traffic off Shaw Street. However, council was told that due to continued extraction of gravel at the Shaw pit, the road would be unsafe for use by trucks from the Caswell pit. It is expected that trucks from the new pit would use Caswell Avenue and Shaw Street to access Keystone.
The public hearing is required, as the property will need to be rezoned from rural to industrial.
The hours of operation and other conditions are set by the provincial ministry of mines. The pit is to operate from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
“All residents (in the area) should have a copy of all the conditions of the (provincial) permit, so that complaints can go directly to the ministry,” said Mayor Randy Hawes. “If they are not in compliance, they can be temporarily shut down by a mine inspector. That is pretty costly.”
Hawes, in his former capacity as Abbotsford-Mission MLA, served for a time as minister of state for mining in the BC Liberal provincial government. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/news/391329301.html | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/d071e8ff16aa777cae496967ee80ee3af7ae0b0a171c09aa16e6ec2400647402.json |
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"Tom Fletcher"
] | 2016-08-26T13:11:16 | null | null | Few BC Parks bookings going to commercial operators, solution is more campsite spaces, Environment Minister Mary Polak says | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Flifestyles%2F385640471.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/18489BCLN2007CampingBarriereLakeJasonKoppwiki7web.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Provincial campsite rush mostly B.C. residents | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Solitude in the wilderness is still available in B.C., between holiday weekends when demand peaks at B.C.'s most popular parks.
Foreign visitors and those on package tours are a small fraction of the demand for B.C. Parks campgrounds around the province, but B.C. resident campers are still using a few tricks to get spaces for high-demand parks.
Some have protested the use of online reservations by motorhome tour operators who sell them as part of a package for tourists.
"Our provincial campsites are not products to be sold, they belong to the people of B.C.," Green Party leader Andrew Weaver said this week.
Environment Minister Mary Polak told Black Press numbers are being tracked for the current year, and the proportions haven't changed much. In 2015, fewer than one per cent of reservable B.C. Parks spaces were booked by tour operators, who also use private camping facilities.
Three quarters of reservations are from within B.C. The second highest share is from Alberta at 14 per cent, the U.S. accounts for 3.6 per cent, the rest of Canada 2.8 per cent, and all European countries combined are 6.6 per cent of the total.
The BC Parks system has 10,700 camping spaces in total, and 5,600 are reservable, to manage demand for the most popular spots.
First-come, first-served sites are kept out of the reservation system in some popular locations to accommodate travellers who drop in along the road. For high-demand periods like the recent Canada Day weekend, savvy campers work the reservation system.
At Golden Ears Provincial Park, one group booked for two weeks as soon as the 90-day eligibility window opened, then dropped the first week, giving them the coveted Canada Day weekend dates before they were generally available.
"Every year we look to change things to keep people from cheating, and every year they find new ways," Polak said. "Really the only answer is going to be finding a way to expand the number of sites that we have available."
It's shaping up as a record year for the Discover Camping reservation service, with 92,000 bookings so far this year.
B.C. Parks has added four new sites for this summer. Reservations can be made for Garibaldi Provincial Park in the Whistler area, Ruckle Provincial Park on Saltspring Island, Okanagan Falls Provincial Park, Inland Lake Provincial Park near Powell River and Dry Gulch Provincial Park near Radium Hot Springs. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/lifestyles/385640471.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/55c00ee339de865f1f9810430894e4e4549ff0889449d41cde988175fcddc279.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:11:59 | null | null | Gord Boyes had the audience spellbound as he performed for a huge crowd of children in Mission. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Flifestyles%2F386983961.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/11430missionmagicianlibraryf.jpg?t=12345? | en | null | Magic at the Mission Library | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | Magician Gord Boyes performs.
Children's magician Gord Boyes was at the Mission Library on Friday to entertain a huge crowd of kids and parents.
His style of family-fun magic had the kids yelling for more.
Below, you can see the results of his "creating a Canadian flag" trick, which the audience cheered for. | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/lifestyles/386983961.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/e3ecd279aaba7aff114fdf6619f013c743e859b264981020609de0456e21e006.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:59 | null | null | Our town began with and was named after the Oblate Fathers’ Mission to the indigenous people in the Valley and beyond. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missioncityrecord.com%2Fopinion%2Fletters%2F387029441.html.json | http://media.bclocalnews.com/images/BlackNewsMedia-CLR.png?t=12345? | en | null | LETTER: Small step forward | null | null | www.missioncityrecord.com | I was gratified to read that the interpretive signs at Fraser River Heritage Park will be changed to reflect the truth about Canada’s residential schools for aboriginal people, of which Mission’s St. Mary’s Indian Residential School was one.
Our town began with and was named after the Oblate Fathers’ Mission to the indigenous people in the Valley and beyond.
We carry within our community’s very name the history of a tragedy against a people who were here thousands of years before us, a people who still suffer from discrimination and injustice.
We also carry within our community the ability to change our attitudes and actions towards our aboriginal neighbours.
Redoing the signs at Heritage Park is a small step forward.
Susan Truman
Mission | http://www.missioncityrecord.com/opinion/letters/387029441.html | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.missioncityrecord.com/a67fb0e9024d99662e27b8b2bae6b5706339c451549cf8dd370dd65fc423e53a.json |
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