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By Mike Vanden Bosch

Canada Day

Chilliwack residents celebrate Canada Day with family-friendly activities

Jul 1, 2022 | 6:09 PM

CHILLIWACK – Chilliwack’s Canada Day celebrations had a little something for everyone to enjoy.

Families across the city marked the occasion by taking in breakfast at one of two downtown locations, skating downtown, and visiting local fire halls. to mark the occasion.

Turnout was brisk at Evergreen Hall early Friday morning where the Kiwanis clubs of Sardis and Chilliwack joined together to serve hundreds of hungry diners eager for flapjacks, eggs, and sausages.

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Even at 10 a.m., in the last hour of the three-hour breakfast, attendees donning Canadian flags and patriotic red shirts kept packing the city-owned facility where COVID-19 measures were in effect.

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The Book Man owner Amber Price and fellow Kiwanis member Larry Sigurdson dished up breakfast alongside fellow volunteer Olivia Tuck of the G.W. Graham Key Club, all donning smiles during the final hour of the event.

Over at Fire Hall No. 1 on Cheam Avenue, retired firefighter Jeff Martin and current firefighter Sean MacDonald were among the personnel who cooked eggs and pancakes for families galore. Kids tried their hand at unleashing water from high-pressure hoses.

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For those wanting to get out of town and avoid Vancouver-area traffic, hundreds of campers soaked in the beautiful view of the rushing rapids of the Chilliwack River along the Chilliwack Lake Road corridor. Others headed farther east to Lindeman Lake and Chilliwack Lake where over 150 cars jammed the road and parking lots, despite the recent Chilliwack RCMP warning of a rash of catalytic converter thefts.

The scenic, meandering curves of Chilliwack Lake Road led visitors and families alike to the Chilliwack River Valley Fire Department’s volunteer BBQ at midday, where fire chief Mike Danyluk and fellow volunteers took turns showcasing the all-volunteer squad’s engines and its emergency sirens. The Polish hot dog BBQ had attendees donate money into two firefighter boots while kids took turns trying on firefighter gear or spraying fire hoses.

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The all-volunteer fire department received over $1,200 in donations and expressed thanks to all the members of the community and visitors that supported them through the BBQ.

Further up the Chilliwack River Valley, residents of Post Creek celebrated Canada Day with a quaint parade of over a dozen vehicles, including a fire engine from the Chilliwack River Valley Fire Department.

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Others observed Canada Day by attending a pro-freedom rally in Yarrow where over 500 people packed Pioneer Park to hear various speakers, while some cooled off by ice skating for free at the Chilliwack Coliseum over the lunch hour. Live music and fireworks were planned to cap off the evening at Townsend Park in downtown Chilliwack.

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