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‘Cricket’ explosive brought to police station Cops strongly suggest leaving bombs where you find them BY MATTHEW ROBINSON Vancouver Sun
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Jeff and Tracy Dyck, winners of the 2013 Chilliwack Times Fix Auto Christmas Car Giveaway, pose with daughters Alexis and Jessica, friend Rayleen McCaghren and local business donors.
Friends helping friends BY CORNELIA NAYLOR cnaylor@chilliwacktimes.com
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he last two years haven’t been easy for Jeff and Tracy Dyck, but their burden got a little lighter last week when they were handed the keys to a fully refurbished 2001 Toyota Camry. The Chilliwack couple, who between them have a son and two daughters, are the 2013 winners of the 10th Annual Chilliwack Times Fix Auto Christmas Car Giveaway. Two years ago, the couple’s life was turned upside down when Tracy was
United effort by the many friends of Jeff and Tracy Dyck helped make Christmas Car Giveaway possible getting ready for work one day and fainted. When she regained consciousness, she couldn’t move for half an hour. Since then, what has been diagnosed as a somatoform disorder, has incapacitated Tracy suddenly and unexpectedly every four to seven days, leaving her unable to work or drive. Until last week, the only car Jeff
had to drive to his wife’s aid was a 20-year-old Honda Civic with 600,000 kilometres on it. Besides having to use the old clunker to drive Tracy to and from medical appointments in Chilliwack and Vancouver, Jeff had to use it to zip back and forth from work every day to drive 12-year-old Alexis and eight-year-old Jessica to school. When the ancient Civic broke
down recently, Alexis had to miss part of her school day to walk her little sister to and from school. “She was awesome about it. She didn’t complain,” Tracy told the Times. But for Tracy and Jeff’s friends and family, that was the final straw. “I just thought, ‘This is crazy; it’s out of control,’” said Rayleen See GIVEAWAY Page 3
on’t touch found explosives” is the message Mounties are spreading after a Chilliwack resident brought an improvised explosive device to a police station last week. The resident found the small homemade explosive at the intersection of Yale Road and First Avenue Dec. 13, according to a news release by Chilliwack RCMP Cpl. Len vanNieuwenhuizen. Out of concern for public safety, the citizen picked it up and delivered it to the local RCMP. “Fortunately the device was not brought into the police office,” said vanNieuwenhuizen. When police came out, they inspected the tiny bomb, commonly known as a “cricket.” The cricket was made from a soldered brass shell casing with the remains of a fuse in one end. “Although this was a small explosive device it still has the potential to cause serious physical harm or property damage,” said vanNieuwenhuizen. “We advise anyone finding such a device to please not handle or move it and to contact the police at earliest opportunity. “ The Mounties’ Explosive Disposal Unit was called in to dispose of the cricket.
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