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Eyewitness key to B&E, assault and robbery conviction
BY PAUL J. HENDERSON phenderson@chilliwacktimes.com
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and dancing inside the store with employees, friends, members of the local arts community, including some Chilliwack School of Performing Arts (CSOPA) students, and even some customers. Hamel-Brisson came up with the idea for the video and it was shot and edited by local filmmaker Matthew Hawkins, and choreographed by Pauline Dynowski. The video isn’t the first they have
very robbery is costly for the victim. Every theft is a crime. Every break-and-enter is a violation. But some are more costly and feel like more of a violation than others. When thugs broke into a Chilliwack facility for adults with developmental disabilities last week, what may seem like a small amount of money stolen was actually a relative fortune lost. “It was devastating to our program,” Chilliwack Opportunity Society supp o r t w o rke r taking it Sherry Conteh away from said. A week the most ago, someone broke into the vulnerable Fairfield Island people.” building the small charita- - Heidi Glaister ble organization runs its day program out of and stole approximately $1,000 in cash and cheques and $2,000 worth of hearing assistance devices, which were on loan. Also stolen were the keys to a bus, a pickup truck and the front door. The thieves also destroyed relatively new fire doors on the side of the building. What is $1,000 to the Chilliwack Opportunity Society? “To us, $1,000 is two months of programming for 25 individuals,” manager
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he home invasion trial of Curtis Vidal and Travis Soderstrom came down to the eyewitness testimony from one young woman who picked the two out of a lineup after the incident. Brittany Martens was the only one out of four individuals in the apartment Vidal and Soderstrom entered with a gun on Dec. 16, 2013 who was a reliable eyewitness to the break a n d e n t e r, a n d the assault and robber y of Kyle Nelmes. EB IRST In BC Supreme First reported on Court in Chillichilliwacktimes.com w a c k o n Tu e s day, Justice Brian Joyce found the two prolific violent offenders guilty on all four counts connected to the home invasion at the apartment of Nelmes who was punched in the face and had approximately $700 in cash stolen from a safe in his bedroom. Nelmes told the court during trial that jewelry, a computer and the keys to his BMW and motorcycle were also stolen. Both vehicles were stolen in subsequent weeks. But despite being the target of the attack, and the fact that he was confronted and punched in the face by Vidal, Nelmes not only didn’t identify
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It’s All About Them Books BY PAUL J. HENDERSON phenderson@chilliwacktimes.com
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parody video produced for a popular Chilliwack used bookstore has gone viral on Facebook with more than 150,000 views and lots of media attention in just a week. The video for The Book Man (posted on its Facebook page) is called All About Them Books, a parody of pop song All About That Bass, according to producer Emily Hamel-Brisson. “It’s been pretty mind-blowing how many people have watched it and are reacting so positively to it,”
Local parody video goes viral Hamel-Brisson told the Times. The video has received comments and shares on Facebook from as far as Austria to Australia. “It’s weird and awesome,” Hamel-Brisson said. As of 9 a.m. on Wednesday, the video had 159,009 views and had been shared 6,496 times. After the Times wrote about the video, the story was picked up by Global TV, the Huffington Post and EllenNation.com. The music video features singing 6956197
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Emily Hamel-Brisson (left to right), Elizabeth Monaghan and Pauline Dynowski in the parody music video for The Book Man that has gone viral online with more than 150,000 views in just one week.
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