Special Features - Our Community, Our People

The Chilliwack Progress Wednesday, July 29, 2015 Our Community. Our People. 11

Publisher: Carly Ferguson Sales: Chris Franklin, Bairy Marchuk, Larry Krause, Maureen Tempel and Tara Hiebert Editorial: Greg Knill, Jennifer Feinberg, Eric Welsh and Jess Peters Photography: Jenna Hauck

Creative: Lisa Clarke, Chelsea Caldwell, Gerrad Zandetti and Bobbi Brooklyn

OurCommunity. OurPeople.Beyond the natural settings, people make our community.

They are artists and athletes, innovators and counsellors, educators and volunteers - people of all backgrounds and interests.

In the second annual issue of Our Community. Our People. the Progress shares with you profi les of some of the characters from various backgrounds who live, work and make a difference in Chilliwack.

We explore their backgrounds and let you know a little bit about how they help shape the community. We hope they will inspire you as they have us.

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Good youth groups foster independence and provide a place to learn leadership skills. They’re a safe haven where kids can be silly and express themselves. Above all, youth groups are a place to learn to love a higher power.

There’s really no better place to be as a teen, says Broadway Church’s youth pastor Megan Janz.

“I had grown up going to youth group,” she said. “And it was the best time of my life. I never wanted to leave.”

So, she didn’t.

After completing high school, she went off to Columbia Bible College. But through those years she kept volunteering at church, and staying connected to youth. Before she even completed her BA in Youth Work, she had already secured her current job at Broadway. She’s held down

that fort for the past seven years now, finished that bachelor’s degree, and has seen hundreds of teens come through the church doors.

At a quick glance, being a youth pastor seems like a pretty easygoing job.

Janz is tasked with the spiritual well-being

of the kids who walk through her doors for

youth group. They are teetering on the edge of adulthood, and no

matter which they fall she’s there to catch

them.

There are the impromptu Nerf gun wars, high-fives in the hallways, trips to Mexico with kids eager to make a

difference, coffee dates to talk about God, the universe and everything under the sun. Most recent mornings, her puppy Whimsy has been at her feet, ready for a quick cuddle or roam around the church.

But in reality it’s not all fun and games. This is not about party planning and it’s certainly not babysitting.

Janz is tasked with the spiritual well-being of the kids who walk through her doors for youth group. They are teetering on the edge of adulthood, and no matter which they fall she’s there to catch them.

Every summer, as the youth groups go dormant for a few months, she spend time connecting with young leaders volunteering up at Stillwood

C o n f e r e n c e Centre and other camps.

It’s a highlight of her job, to see kids walking the walk and giving themselves to a higher purpose. Whether that means taking on a big volunteer role at a summer camp, or serving on mission trips, or truly seeking answers, Janz takes notice when her kids “actively live it out.”

But she sees the other side of the coin, too.

“There are huge rewards,” Janz says, sitting in her office at Broadway. “But you see kids make mistakes and poor choices and wish you had done

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Keeper ofHistory

“History is happening all around us right now,” Matthew

Francis said with a grin. “We just don’t recognize it at the time.”

On the job since February, Francis is the new keeper of Chilliwack’s history as president of the Chilliwack Museum.

He and his team, led by curator Jane Lemke and archivist Shannon Bettles, oversee a collection of 9,000+ artifacts and countless archival objects, trying to bring the past back into the light.

“They’re a portal, a window into another time and world,” he said.

A local kid, Francis has come home after a long time away.

After graduating from Chilliwack secondary school in the late 1990s, he went overseas to study at the University of Manchester. For historians, Europe is a playground, full of ancient buildings and artifacts.

“The Codex Alexandrinus is one of the oldest manuscripts in the world (it dates back to the fifth century),

and I used to eat my lunch by it every day at the British Museum,” Francis said. “There were so many unique places in Manchester, but the one that stands out is Chetham’s Library. It’s the oldest public library in the English speaking world. Walking into a medieval library like that feels a bit like stepping into a Harry Potter film.”

“We have this notion that we’re such a young country, and how much history could we have?

But that doesn’t take into account those

who’ve been here the longest, the Sto:lo and first nations peoples.”

A historian would be tempted to stay forever, but Francis was eventually pulled back to North America.

Specifically, he spent 13 years in Alberta (Calgary and Edmonton).

Finally back in Chilliwack, Francis looks forward to telling his hometown’s story and dispelling some myths.

“We have this notion that we’re such a young country, and how much history could we have? But that doesn’t take into account those who’ve been here the longest, the Sto:lo and first nations peoples,” Francis said. “That’s very significant and everything I saw in Europe, I always had in mind things that have been here longer.”

“People look at Stonehenge and I think of Hatzic Rock in Mission (a sacred site

t h a t dates back 9000 years).”

Even Francis can be caught off-guard by what he learns.

“Chilliwack had a very vibrant Chinese community in the early 20th century, and I didn’t know that,” he said. “Why we don’t know about that is that, by the 1930s, a lot of those wood-framed buildings had burned down, and there aren’t any physical buildings associated with that history. It’s pretty much all gone.”

“Unless you dig into the archives because you’re interested in it, that’s not going to be visible to you. It’s a

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In the old days, greenhouse growers would have to climb into protective

rubber suits and gloves to spray their crops a few times a week to control pests like aphids, thrips and caterpillars.

But the work of researcher David Gillespie of Chilliwack changed all that.

His entomological research made it so the frequent use of pesticides in greenhouses is now exceedingly rare.

In recognition, Gillespie became one of 11 B.C. residents invested as a member of the Order of Canada.

What he did over the decades was adopt a whole new approach, and a whole new way of looking at the problem. He became an expert in biological controls using parasitic and predatory insects.

“It’s an incredible honour,” Gillespie said when reached by The Progress about his investiture as a member of the Order of Canada for 2015.

Gillespie was the one who first found two natural enemies that kicked off the era of biological control, the parasitic wasp, and the predatory mite.

Now instead of climbing into rubber

suits to spray the crops, the growers

could just release the tiny predators into the

greenhouse and let them get to work.

It was all about releasing them into the greenhouses, at the right time, in the right ways, in the right numbers to go after pests.

His passion for this work was sparked at the undergrad level. He was profoundly inspired by his university biology professor, Thelma Finlayson.

“She introduced me to entomology, and was adamant about the need for the reduction of pesticides,” he said.

Finlayson was influenced by the 1962 book on environmental science, Silent Spring, which warned against the detrimental effects of indiscriminate pesticide use. The book eventually led to the ban in the U.S. on DDT for ag uses, and influenced a whole generation of researchers like Gillespie.

He started his journey at 29, after being handed the considerable responsibility for the working with greenhouse industry on greenhouse entomology. He was hired in 1982 in Saanich where the research centre at

the time was run by Agriculture Canada.

“I was really lucky to come off my PhD studies at Simon Fraser University and go right into a job,” he remembered. “At the time the industry was realizing it had to shift away from intensive pest management using pesticides.”

Gillespie moved to Chilliwack in 1987, when the program shifted to PARC in Agassiz.

Just as there were scientists working in canola, or tree fruits, or even potatoes, his bailiwick was greenhouse pests.

“The growers in B.C. were very excited,” Gillespie remembered. “They were an absolutely fantastic group of innovators who were eager for the new technology, which made life really easy.”

Essentially it was taking these natural enemies, from a bug on a leaf that eats other bugs, to developing a full-on package of knowledge that allowed the grower to effectively control the worst pests.

Now instead of climbing into rubber suits to spray the crops, the growers could just release the tiny predators into the greenhouse and let them get to work.

They didn’t have to even change their clothes to do it.

“These discoveries have been very important in allowing growers to reduce pesticide use on their crops. In some cases to zero,” said Gillespie.

Let that sink in for a moment or two. Think of the savings and long-term impacts.

“Now if they spray two or three times a year, it’s likely only to control a tiny outbreak on part of the crop.”

Over the years, he’s had a few moments to savour the sweetness of it all.

“Like most research scientists, I have felt good about what I’ve done throughout my career.

“One of the joys of working for Agriculture Canada is that you know you are making a positive contribution.”

It’s a big deal to get the Order of Canada, he figures.

“It’s clear recognition that the things that we do in science and biology do matter in society,” he said.

Getting the call was the icing on the cake.

“I really can’t get over it. It’s a real capstone.”

The Order of Canada is the nation’s highest honour, established in 1967 by Queen Elizabeth II, to recognize those who have enriched the lives of others and made a difference in some vital way from all sectors of society.

He was going over his latest manuscript at the office when he got the call a few weeks ago. He was being named to the Order of

Canada.

“It came totally out of the blue,” Gillespie said.

The congratulatory calls and emails have been flooding into Gillespie’s office at the Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre (PARC) in Agassiz ever since.


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There’s an impressive pile of handwritten thank-you notes at

Donna Goodey’s home in Sardis.

Each one has been carefully crafted by a thankful high school graduate of 2015, and outlines hopes for their lives as medical professionals — doctors, nurses, care aides, dietitians. Each letter acknowledges money received

by the Chilliwack Hospital Auxiliary, and how it will help them achieve their goals.

It’s not required that the grads send thank you notes, but they arrive anyway.

Goodey, third term president of the auxiliary, reads the letters over and has hope for the future. Receiving

letters like this is an annual task, and one she takes great pleasure in.

She is motivated by gratitude, for what the medical community has done for her family and for what other volunteers have contributed to the auxiliary.

“With the health care that you get, you just

naturally want to give back.”

Goodey has been involved with the auxiliary for the last 20 years. She’s also been with the Canadian Diabetes Association for 35 years, on the local executive, then regional, then provincial. She helped lobby the government to allow Pharmacare to cover the cost of blood test strips.

The Goodeys’ two daughters, Candice and Tara, both were diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes as young children. This was in the mid-’80s, and Goodey shudders at the memory of the invasive and costly treatments available three decades ago.

“You used to have to put their pee in a test tube,” she says, then dip in test strips and match the colour to a colour strip. This all took two hours, just to find out blood sugar levels when it could be too late.

“The information was two hours old,” she adds.

But she doesn’t dwell on the negative “drudgery” of a life with diabetes, and neither do her now-grown daughters. One has had a pancreas transplant, and now produces insulin. Both girls grew from young diabetes patients to become camp counsellors.

“With the health care that you get, you just naturally want to give back,” Goodey explains.

So getting involved with both the

Canadian Diabetes Association, and the Chilliwack Hospital Auxiliary was bound to happen. Now that she’s retired from working as an administrator with both provincial and federal corrections, she’s put her administration skills to good use.

In one pile in her house, there are scrapbooks for the auxiliary on the go. In another pile, she’s working on another history project. She puts together the auxiliary newsletter, takes care of correspondence like thank you letters and Christmas cards, manages the member list, oversees the Auxiliary Thrift Shoppe on Main Street, and organizes thank you celebrations for the 80-some volunteers signed up with the group.

There are to-do lists pre-made in her agenda right now that are dated for 2016, and 2017.

“I put it in there as soon as I think about it,” she says. “I have to. I plan one to two years in advance and then deal with it one day at a time.”

It’s a lot of work, but being highly organized makes it a breeze — and she likes to be busy, anyway.

And the payoff is that she is able to help people through some of the hardest days of their lives.

“Everyone is going to need the hospital at some point in their life,” she says.

Goodey and the rest of the auxiliary members are the friendly faces with the red vests in CGH. They serve tea to people while they await discharge, and sit with patients while they wait for family members to arrive. They help with IV therapy, are the ones behind the knitting case, and very likely a long list of unrecognized small acts of kindness within the hospital’s walls.

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Time has taught her to worry less, to remember that she’s not a parent, and to just be beside them in their times of need.

“In coming alongside kids in their adolescence, I am a big part of their life,” she says. “And I know the story is never done, no matter what they’re going through.”

She also spends a great deal of time connecting with parents, learning more about the kids, and volunteering as a coach at Chilliwack middle school.

Growing up, she had never imagined herself as a youth pastor. In her world, pastors were always men. When others suggested the role would be a perfect one for her, it took her by surprise. But she trusted in the advice and went for it.

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Janz also finds solace in the very words they’re all there to learn about and to celebrate. One phrase from Zephaniah 3:17 sticks out in her mind through the more stressful days.

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“The leadership part can make me anxious sometimes, but I just have to remember it’s out of my hand and it’s bigger than this situation, and God’s in control.”

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really important story that I’d love to tell in the future.”

Before getting to that, Francis is focused on the first major exhibit to appear under his watch.

This fall the museum will reveal ‘Game On,’ examining the evolution of sports in Chilliwack.

“It will look at 150+ years,” he said. “It’s going to be an experientel walk through of pretty much any sport you can imagine, and it will be a lot of fun.”

When the man who’s focused on the past is asked to picture the future, he has a vision for where he’d like the museum to go.

“Every step you take in Chilliwack, there’s history, and I’d like to take us out there,” he said. “Ten years from now I hope we’re using aps and interactive displays to bring that history to life. I want us out in the community celebrating Chilliwack and telling its story in the same way we do within the museum walls.”

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J u s t theoretical right now, it would challenge the widely accepted idea that ex-National Hockey League enforcers Wade Belak, Rick Rypien and Derek Boogaard were driven to depression and, in eventually suicide, by the after-effects of concussions.

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Although Electrolysis is the only treatment that can promise permanent results, Jennifer Desloges, founder of Jade Electrolysis, explains that success is also contingent on the skill of the Electrologist. At Jade Electrolysis, we are constantly improving upon our techniques. Just having the right equipment is not a guarantee of success. To help us understand why, she explained a few basics. Electrolysis is the procedure of inserting a very fi ne needle into the hair follicle (a pre-existing hole) so you should not feel the needle poke or break the skin. Once inserted, the needle delivers a controlled current to “kill” the root. If the current is insuffi cient, the root will not release the hair and you will feel the hair being “tweezed” as it’s removed. If you feel the needle going in or the hair coming out, the hair will grow back and you could end up with scarring and/or nerve damage. Even if these parameters are met, using lower currents will take longer to treat the hair resulting in higher costs. It is important that the electrologist works close enough to the client’s pain threshold that the treatment is uncomfortable but not make the client want to run out the door screaming!

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LivingHistory

A five day hike from Tulameen to Hope may not be a dream for

everybody, but for Rick Herfst, it’s a major item on his bucket list.

Herfst has participated as a historical re-enactor in the Fort Langley Brigade Days Weekend for seven years, and his area of historical expertise is the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) Brigade Trail.

The trail was the primary route of transportation for the fur traders, who would pack and haul the year’s intake of furs, by horseback and canoe, from interior and northern trading posts all the way to Fort Langley, which then would be shipped to England.

Herfst has long been interested in the history of where he actually lived. “There’s this idea that, perhaps, Canadian history is dull,” Herfst explains, “so I started to investigate.” Throughout years of collecting a library of books and journals, Herfst realized that “the [northwest] fur trade has had a huge impact on us as a country.”

The annual Brigade Days event takes place in Fort Langley, the actual place where Governor Douglas proclaimed the Crown colony of British Columbia in 1858. Throughout the weekend, volunteer re-enactors don period (pioneer) attire, set-up camp, and reenact life in the 1800s, showing off all kinds of traditional skills.

On his property, Herfst has built his own

trading post, filled with a collection of replicas

and collectibles to represent the belongings

of pioneers.

Herfst first began volunteering at Brigade Days on a Chilliwack couple’s recommendation. After his first time reenacting, Herfst couldn’t wait to get back the next year, but he had a lot of collecting and skill-building to keep

h i m busy in the meantime.

On his property, Herfst has built his own trading post, filled with a collection of replicas and collectibles to represent the belongings of pioneers. “I get enjoyment out of learning the skills that [pioneers] had,” he says as he points out the shooters bags, fur bales and wooden chests that he’s created.

Even basic survival skills like lighting a fire with one spark, drying meat, or cooking on a fire, “those things are unique, and a dying form.”

It’s been an educational journey for Herfst, and he strives to share this knowledge with the public during Brigade Days. “I think there’s a lack

of historical knowledge out there,” Herfst says, and he wants to educate the locals about where we, as a province, came from.

“I think we can do a better job [at teaching history] and that we can make it more interesting.” Rather than looking at grainy pictures and dates in a textbook, re-enactors bring history to life. Particularly for young people, Herfst notes, it’s important to engage them through live demonstrations, let them create something, and inspire them to ask “why.”

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“I think there’s a lack of historical knowledge out there,” Rick Herfst says, and he wants to educate the locals about where we, as a province, came from.

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An old, sepia-toned family photo hangs on the wall of Multi Pack Deli and Meats, on Nowell Street in Chilliwack.It captures business owner Mike Wettig with his parents in front of their meat shop in Hanover, Germany, when he was about two years old. He’s clasping hands with his father, a master sausage maker, and his mother gently rests her hand on his shoulder. They’re all smiles, posing under the family name printed on the window.

Wettig began learning about butchering and sausage-making early on in life, fi rst under the watchful eye of dad, and then with Frebye Meats throughout high school.“I was always with my dad, helping.” Wettig says, while taking a break from operating his busy delicatessen. In 1965, Gunte Wettig moved his family to Canada, securing a job in Prince George as a sausage maker at the competitive rate of $2.25 an hour.

With that soild family background in the trade, it’s no surprise that half a century later and on opposite ends of the world, the younger Wettig is still in the business. He and his wife Astrid have operated Multi Pack for the past 17 years, while carrying on in the family tradition of offering high-quality,

locally-made meats. Prior to that, they operated a manufacturing plant in the Vancouver area, along with a wholesale business and a family delicatessen.

“When we started this store, all I made was fresh bratwurst,” Wettig says. “Now I make about 85 per cent of what I have in the store.”

One of their most popular products is their Black Forest ham, which they always offer at an almost unheard of price of 99 cents/100 grams.

“We make it ourselves,” Wettig says, right on location.The couple is proud of the partnerships they’ve built up with other Chilliwack and Abbotsford businesses, including

suppliers, wholesale customers, and those who stock their products in their own stores.All their pork is slaughtered at Johnston’s, for example, and their buns come from Sardis Bakery. And when the Chilliwack

School District holds their professional days, the sandwiches are catered by Multi Pack. And that’s just a small sampling of the numerous business partners they work with, and value like family.

They value their customers, too. Multi Pack has won multiple readers awards in past years, and the staff works hard to get to know their customers by name – and by the names of their dogs. Along with the family photo on the wall,

the Wettig’s keep a mural of pet photos brought in by customers.Nothing goes to waste in their kitchens, with product monitored and rotated steadily. It’s crucial to surviving in

any business, but especially so for those small downtown storefonts.“Downtown has got to be the toughest place to do business,” Wettig says, “but we keep plugging away.”

They’re fi nding a way to survive, by diversifying their business through outside catering orders for exam-ple. And now they’ve grown to add a new smoke house and sausage maker. They are beginning to offer items their customers are asking for, including freezer packs, low sodium and MSG-free meats, gluten free selections, and fresh meats.

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Making a Difference

Josh Bohr of Chilliwack has always wanted to do more than just live

his life.

“I want my life to make a difference,” he said with conviction. “I think I’d be restless otherwise.”

The energetic 19-year-old with a big smile aspires to one day toil at the global level: working at the United Nations.

For now he’s content working at Starbucks in Chilliwack, while finishing his degree, and making a difference, one caffeinated beverage at time.

“In a weird way I send people off with their cup of coffee or Frappucino and they leave the store a little better than when they walked in.”

Bohr enjoys being a barista while studying political science and preparing for his role next month as coordinator of the summer vacation program, Kids Games. It will run evenings from August 17-21 at the Salvation Army Community Church on Brooks Avenue.

“I think Kids Games will be one of the highlights of my life,” he says.

“I want the kids feeling valued and empowered.

I hope they leave feeling energized about

making their own contributions.”

Bohr comes by it all honestly. His mom is a school teacher and his dad is a pastor at Salvation Army, who brought Kids Games to Chilliwack about eight years ago.

“I think it’s just so unique and so special because unlike other Bible camps being offered around town, it is not just for church kids. It’s for everyone.”

The evening program mixes bible-based life training with sports coaching, and this year it focuses on

soccer, basketball, lacrosse, martial arts, or even ukelele.

Bohr started helping with Kids Games from the time he was in Grade 6, and started getting serious about it three summers ago.

“This year I’m coordinating, and I hope to see it impact people the way it impacted me.”

He calls himself “old school” and does not carry a cell phone, or live on Facebook.

Aside from the hours of sports training and coaching, there are also valuable life lessons on offer, through skits, videos, songs, and discussions in group settings.

This year they’ll focus on what it

means to be part of a community, using the theme of a construction worksite. They’ll talk about how to be humble. How to be an individual. How to be trustworthy. How to put others first.

Bohr’s positivity is positively infectious, as he maps out some of his goals along with helping underprivileged youth.

“I want the kids feeling valued and empowered. I hope they leave feeling energized about making their own contributions.”

It’s a thrill when he gets to see

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Energetic 19-year-old Josh Bohr aspires to one day toil at the global level: working at the United Nations.

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CARE - It’s a two-way streetJulie Bowman knows what it’s like to be the

new kid on the block. Moving to Chilliwack from

North Vancouver four years ago, she started

looking for volunteer opportunities that would help

her get to know the community and meet new

people. “We always had dogs and I used to work at a vet

clinic, so when I found out the CARE centre needed dog walkers, it was the perfect opportunity,”

explains Bowman.The CARE centre, (Community Animal

Response and Education) is part of the Fraser Valley Regional District’s animal control program.

Once dogs come to the centre, animal control

owner can’t be found, the dogs are assessed, rehabilitated, and eventually matched with suitable

adoptive families.Julie values the chance she has to make a differ-

ence in the lives of the dogs. “It can be unsettling for them to be in a new, unfamiliar place. You can

really see how socializing affects them in a positive way.”

Over the years, Julie has nurtured countless dogs, and has shared her stories with the people she

meets on her outings.“People often tell me they can’t imagine volun-

teering at CARE, because they would get too attached to the dogs. I explain that you are helping the dogs through this transition, getting them settled and ready to move on to their permanent homes. It makes you feel good knowing you are fulfilling that need.”

In March, Julie was diagnosed with breast

cancer. Now undergoing chemotherapy treatment, her resolve to visit the CARE centre hasn’t

wavered.“It takes your mind off what’s happening,”

she says with a smile. “I feel so fortunate to be able to help the staff, who are so kind and caring. It’s a

two-way street, really. I help them and they help me.”

Volunteers are screened and paired carefully with the dogs based on their experience and inter-

ests. Some volunteers have taken CARE dogs on hiking adventures. Others prefer staying in the

centre’s yard, throwing a ball or sitting quietly with the smaller dogs.

come and spend time with the dogs whenever I’m

feeling up to it,” explains Bowman. “If you have an hour or a few hours, they can accomodate you.”

For more information about volunteer opportu-

nities with CARE, please call 1-844-495-CARE.

Julie Bowman, the CARE centre’s top volunteer takes Apollo for an afternoon stroll through Townsend Park.

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Local programs include help for victims of abuse,

employment services for our native communities;

help for HIV AIDS infected persons; help for

people with disabilities and much more.

Internationally MCC is funding and helping

with clean water and food projects;

peace development and disaster response

with local people partnering with MCC.

Thrift Stores provide a meaningful way to

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By keeping all kinds of good reusable things out

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Gaetz suggests many of these players may have other issues in their lives — drugs, steroids and too many others to list here — that contribute significantly to their ultimate outcome. Concussions may not be solely to blame.

It wouldn’t be a fashionable result.

While Gaetz plots his next move, Chilliwack continues to benefit from having one of the worlds’ foremost concussion authorities living and

working in its midst.

“If it was just about the science, I probably wouldn’t do it because it’s time consuming and difficult,” Gaetz said. “UFV is a community engaged and invested university, committed to helping people in the community, and I value that. If I can help even a handful of kids and parents in Chilliwack who otherwise would have been in serious trouble, that is a major success and very rewarding.”

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Mobility Maverickshe said. “They brought me right to the edge of a cliff! With this device, I could actually go into the woods and enjoy nature.”

In the years since, Anya has been taken up the side of a smoking Mt. St. Helens, visited the Elfin Lakes in Garibaldi Provincial Park and the top of the world at Sun Peaks.

Anya’s been places and seen things perfectly healthy people haven’t and she’s far from done.

Back to her boundary-pushing ways, she now dreams of diving and

exploring Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.

Perhaps a trail-rider trip to Peru’s Sacred Valley and the ancient city of Machu Picchu.

Once so limited, adaptive sports have restored Anya’s freedom.

“Knowing that I can do this and it used to be, ‘No you can’t do it,’” she said. “Whether it’s being on the top of a mountain seeing a stunning view, or at the bottom of the ocean, it’s the same feeling. Empowered and feeling happy.”


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l i f e s a v i n g equipment the doctors use every day. Each d e p a r t m e n t writes a wish list, each year, and the auxiliary is one of the groups that gets to play Santa Claus. They spend a n y w h e r e from $80,000 to $120,000 a year on equipment. It’s a lot of money, but medical equipment doesn’t come cheap.

“Just a stretcher is $30,000,” she says.

One year they were able to replace a fridge that held insulin, other years they’ve purchased operating equipment, cardiac machines, and ambulatory care gear.

“You want to get something that will help the most people,” she says.

Goodey doesn’t do all of this for any

sort of recognition. But it has come her way, in the form of some pretty big awards. The Goodeys, including husband Michael, received the Kurt Kroesen National Inspiration Award from the CDA.

But Goodey prefers praising others for their hard work and dedication.

“The more you do for them, the more they give back to you,” she says.

Centre (HMOC) has rediscovered and reopened the Brigade Trail for public use. Looking forward, Herfst will not only be continuing to participate in Brigade Days, but he also hopes to serve as an educational trail guide, preserving the memory of the important exploration and adventure that took place on the Brigade Trail so many years ago.

See Rick Herfst and many more re-enactors in action at the annual Brigade Days at Fort Langley National Historic

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participants’ lives changing for the better right before his eyes.

“I love seeing their lives changes,” Bohr says. “It impacts the program volunteers too.

“I am very proud of the impact this program has had and will continue to have on the community of Chilliwack.”

Bohr grew up with a strong need to give back, through the Sally Ann church and helping at the food bank for example.

“I have been given every advantage in life.

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Spreading the Warmth

You might guess that a woman who donates more than 100 quilts per

year would have an ample personal collection as well, but instead she keeps only one. “It was the first one I ever made,” Elly explains, and it is the only one that she calls her own.

Elly Van Oenen, a retired children’s clothing maker, crafted her first quilt at age 65. Little did she know that her quilts would soon end up in the thankful hands of hundreds of people in need, on the other side of the world.

Elly had always been troubled by images she’d seen of orphaned Ukranian children in steel cribs without blankets to keep warm. When she moved to Chilliwack in 2011, Elly was in search of a way to get her quilts to help these people, and it wasn’t long before she found it.

With transportation help from Nel Neef, also from Chilliwack, the quilts, along with piles of donated clothing, shoes and other textiles are brought to Bellingham Slavic Gospel Church. “The

women there are so happy when we bring them in,” Elly explains proudly “and it’s a joy every time I pass them along.”

“I am so thankful that I’ve found a way to get the quilts to the children in east Ukraine. We have

so much and they have so little.”

From there, volunteers package and ship boxes of donations to Moldova in the Ukraine, where the items are then safely distributed to churches, orphanages, and nursing homes where people are in need.

Elly receives recycled fabric donations from many sources, “we can use everything” she says. Retired quilters provide their unused materials, mothers bring second-hand clothes to the church, and she even takes in

curtains and bumper pads to add to the stockpiles in her closets.

After a wash and an iron, Elly organizes all the fabric into bundles, which will soon be transformed into a quilts.

On her own, Elly has made and donated 325 quilts in the past three years. Her quilting partner, Greta Beekman, has also generously contributed 100 quilts to this altruistic cause. “It’s my hobby too, so I love it” Elly explains, “especially when you know that this is going to people who will get so much joy and warmth out of it.”

Depending on the size, “it takes about three days to create one quilt, working seven hours per day,” Elly explains. She often quilts for six days per week.

“But I don’t do it alone” she is quick to point out, “there are many people who donate time and fabric.”

The days where she isn’t quilting are often filled with birthday parties and family events for her 25 grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren, many of whom Elly has taught to sew as well.

Perhaps the most rewarding moment for Elly is when she and Nel receive thank you letters and photographs from those they’ve helped in the Ukraine. “I am so thankful that I’ve found a way to get the quilts to the children in east Ukraine. We have so much and they have so little.”

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