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A FOOTBALL FAMILY
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Fugitive’s criminal past links to our city Guilty of violent sexual assault in Vedder Crossing BY PAUL J. HENDERSON phenderson@chilliwacktimes.com
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or a three-year-old, Jameson Harvey looks serious about football when he takes his three-point stance on Townsend Park turf. But he is soon distracted by a ladybug that, deciding to join the game, has landed on the ball under his hands. Too young to join the real game at this point, little Jameson has to settle for family scrimmages like this one with his new-found beetle friend on a sunny March afternoon. He’ll have to wait to start with the Chilliwack Giants flag football until he turns five, and he’s already got his position picked out. “I want to play quarterback,” Jameson says. It’s no surprise Jameson is interested
The gridiron Harvey family bleeds Giants football . . . all eight of them in the sport as every other member of his family is somehow involved in the Giants football league. Families are the foundation of a successful community sports league, and it’s hard to imagine a more solid underpinning for the league than the eight-member Harvey clan. The Harveys have been involved with the organization for more than eight years doing just about every task necessary to help the league function. “It just seemed the perfect fit for our family,” says Jameson’s mother Jenny Harvey. “There are so many other families that have three or four kids all playing at some level. It’s just a fun day, it’s a fun atmosphere.”
But this pillar of the Giants community might have to leave all that fun and Chilliwack behind. Jenny’s husband Bryan recently lost his job and the Harvey’s will have to relocate wherever work leads him. “Our kids would definitely miss it,” Jenny says. “We’ve made so many good friends in the community.” It would be a tough blow for the football organization as well as the Harveys. Jenny and Bryan have volunteered, sat on the executive, coached and announced while their children have contributed to the Giants both on and off the field. There’s Jaxon, the oldest son, who
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he man currently sought by police in connection with the March 3 murder of a mother of five in Vancouver has a history of violence and rape in Chilliwack. A $10,000 reward was put up for information leading to the arrest of Daniel Alphonse Paul, 42, who, is wanted after 36-year-old Crystal Rose Paul was found dead DANIEL PAUL in an East Vancouver basement suite. Paul’s criminal record goes back to 1987. It includes assault convictions in 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998 and 2001, but his most violent local crime was in 2002. In 2003, a jury found Paul guilty of sexually assaulting a woman he knew in her Vedder Crossing home. He beat the woman, forced her to perform various sex acts, used a knife to scratch her neck and threatened to kill her. { See FUGITIVE, page A6 }
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