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Police believe incidents are related Carol Aun MISSION RECORD
Several people were assaulted this past weekend in four separate incidents, which police believe are related. “There are many similarities between these crimes which occurred on Friday and Sunday mornings,” said Mission RCMP Sgt. Shaun Wright. The first two incidents happened Friday morning, just two hours apart.
At around 2 a.m., a pedestrian near Cedar Street and 10 Avenue was punched and knocked to the ground by one of two suspects that approached him and demanded his cell phone and wallet. One suspect was described as 5’11” with a slim build, and wearing a white hoodie. The other suspect was wearing a camouflage hoodie. Both were wearing balaclavas and driving a late ’90s-model four-door
Chevrolet Cavalier. Two hours later, police responded to a break-in call on Mountainview Road. Mounties say two male suspects wearing balaclavas broke into the detached garage where there was a Health Canada licensed medicinal marijuana grow operation. “A quantity of marijuana was stolen during the break and enter,” said Wright. On Sunday, around Continued on A5
Adlem seeks re-election, Hawes eyeing challenge Most councillors running again Carol Aun MISSION RECORD
Mayor Ted Adlem will be leading the CRMG slate in November’s civic election with the support of at least three councillors. Couns. Larry Nundal and Dave Hensman, who are members of Citizens for Responsible Municipal Government (CRMG), will also be seeking re-election, but the team will not disclose the names
of the other four candidates until later this year. Meanwhile, a long-served, now retired Mission politician isn’t ready to officially declare his run for the mayor’s seat in November’s civic election, but he recently told The Record he’s “99 per cent there.” Rumours have been circulating about a political comeback for Randy Hawes for more than two months.
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One-hundred and forty riders started at 3 a.m. Saturday in Kelowna en route to South Delta in one day for the Ride2Survive Cancer fundraiser. The riders came through Mission, making a brief stop at the Mission Visitor Information Centre on Lougheed Highway to quickly eat and change clothes before getting back on their bikes. So far, $550,000 has been raised. BOB FRIESEN PHOTO