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Daycares caught in teachers’ job action BY PAUL J. HENDERSON phenderson@chilliwacktimes.com
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A downtown Chilliwack homeowner fires a paintball gun at an alleged thief riding away on a bike in a video posted to YouTube.
Residents sick & tired of being property crime victims
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t’s just before dawn and a hooded man opens the gate to Rob and Nicole Iezzi’s backyard deck in a neighbourhood just east of downtown Chilliwack. He tiptoes past the barbecue and the patio chairs just steps from the couple’s back door. The man is there to steal. Not a bike or power tools or, really, anything of much value. He’s there to steal
their landscaping company, and cigarette butts from their outdoor confused about the cigarette butts ashtray, and anything else he finds going missing, the Iezzis installed laying around. not one, not two but eight surveil“Over the course of about seven lance cameras around their propermonths this fellow kept coming EB IRST ty. And they’ve been posting short back,” Nicole told the Times. See full video at videos of the returning butt thief “Sometimes he goes over our chilliwacktimes.com onto YouTube for months. neighbour’s fence. He has gone In one video, they even went into other people’s yards and rumafter the guy with paintball guns as he took maged through their sheds.” Exasperated by the constant petty thiev{ See BREAKING POINT, page A20 } ing, worried about their equipment for
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f parents and students feel caught in the middle of the current teachers’ dispute, parents of non-schoolaged kids who attend daycares and preschools that happen to be on school property are collateral damage. “I’ve got parents that are just irate about tomorrow,” Kathy Antonio told t h e Ti m e s Monday. “They are Antonio owns A is privately Fo r Ap p l e funded and Daycare Centre, paid for by which operus. I, for one, ates two locations, cannot afford one inside to take the McCammon traditional day off.” elementary school. - Amanda In a letter Harrop sent home May 23 to School District 33 parents, superintendent Evelyn Novak asked that children be kept home from classes during rotating strike days, and she added that all non-school district activities—daycares, pre-schools—were cancelled for May 29. This caused confusion and frustration for parents who pay out of pocket for the private, non-school district programs.
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