Category Archives: Fraser Valley – Home

11th annual Hometown Hoedown for Hospice to feature BBQ dinner, music and live auction Apr. 6 in Chilliwack
CHILLIWACK - Come for the delicious barbeque dinner and stick around for live music from local band Cold Chain and the ever popular mechanical bull. The 11th annual Hometown Hoedown for Hospice, prese...
Mike VandenBosch Mar 06, 2024

Chilliwack MLA candidate urges B.C. NDP to end access to hard drugs, safe supply
CHILLIWACK - The declaration of a state of emergency in the Port Hardy area by the Gwa'sala-'Nakwaxda'xw Nations after 11 of their members died in two months from the use of hard drugs and alcohol ser...
Mike VandenBosch Mar 06, 2024

Rona looking to hire staff for its stores in Chilliwack and Abbotsford
CHILLIWACK - Rona, one of Canada's leading home improvement retailers operating or servicing over 400 corporate and affiliated stores in Canada, will hold a hiring event throughout British Columbia th...
Mike VandenBosch Mar 06, 2024

Proposed Bridal Veil Resort east of Chilliwack estimates it will open by end of this decade
CHILLIWACK - Just days before Cheam First Nation announced on February 26 that it would buy Bridal Falls Golf Course for ecotourism opportunities, including a possible gondola project, the social medi...
Mike VandenBosch Mar 06, 2024

City of Chilliwack takes action against unsightly, insecure Lewis Avenue home
CHILLIWACK - The City of Chilliwack has taken enforcement action against the property owner of a Lewis Avenue home deemed insecure and unsightly. According to Liana Wiebe, communications manager for t...
Mike VandenBosch Mar 06, 2024

Chilliwack RCMP say Island 22 homeless camp involved hundreds of police files
CHILLIWACK - The Island 22 homeless encampment wasn't just an unsightly mess where squatters lived unlawfully and multiple fires occurred in 2023. According to statistics released by the Upper Fraser ...
Mike VandenBosch Mar 05, 2024

Greendale Acres in Chilliwack to host multiple events as 2024 season kicks off
CHILLIWACK - Don't let the late winter snow and ice-cold morning conditions fool you. Spring is just around the corner at Greendale Acres in Chilliwack. The farm is gearing up for another year of fami...
Mike VandenBosch Mar 05, 2024

Dairy Queen to hold hiring fair as it opens soon east of Chilliwack in Popkum
CHILLIWACK - The home of Ultimate cheeseburgers and signature Blizzard desserts will hold a hiring fair next week as it prepares to open this spring east of Chilliwack in Popkum. According to an email...
Mike VandenBosch Mar 05, 2024

High-risk sex offender banned from downtown Chilliwack park has been re-arrested
VANCOUVER - A 24-year-old high-risk sex offender who was the subject of a public warning from the Vancouver Police Department last week, and banned from visiting a downtown Chilliwack park next to the...
Mike VandenBosch Mar 05, 2024

B.C. man once duped investors into Bigfoot Resort east of Chilliwack, but B.C.'s securities watchdog struggles to make con artists pay
VANCOUVER - Ronald McHaffie said he had big plans to build a ski resort near Hope, 150 km east of Vancouver, ahead of the 2010 Olympics. He cut an unlikely figure, with a Grizzly Adams beard and no hi...
Mike VandenBosch Mar 05, 2024