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Trial seeks to answer who stole more than $40,000
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Project co-ordinator Kendra Morgan shows where manholes were inserted to bring in extra light to attract toads to the tunnel. BY VANESSA BROADBENT vanessa.broadbent@chilliwacktimes.com
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Western Toad and Red Legged Tree Frog, begin their journey out of the wetland in into the woods, crossing roads while doing so. This doesn’t always work out too well for the toads with many ending up run over by passing cars. “There’s nothing you can do about it,” explained FVC’s project co-ordinator Kendra Morgan. “The roads go around the wetland; they have to
cross the roads.” But the FVC has come up with a solution: a toad tunnel. A culvert was built under Elk View Road to provide the toads with a safe place to cross. Directional fencing was also installed to guide the toads towards the tunnel. “Very few of them go into the culvert willingly,” Morgan said. “They need to be enticed into it with fencing.”
The tunnel hasn’t been the FVC’s first attempt at saving the toads. Over the years, many different methods have been used, including road closures, detours and even moving the toads across the roads in buckets. While all of these methods helped in keeping the toads safe, none of them were good long term solutions, especially the bucket brigades. “People were picking them up and they’re very small and unfortunately, easily hurt,” Morgan said. “Also, putting them in the buckets and walking { See TUNNEL, page A6 }
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f you’ve ever driven up Ryder Lake during the early summer months, you’ve probably noticed road closures or detours due to toad migration. This year, you might even have seem some construction on Elk View Road. That’s because The Fraser Valley Conservancy (FVC) has been working hard to build a toad tunnel for toad migration. Each year toads from Ryder Lake’s wetlands, including the at risk
Conservancy builds a permanent solution to a temporary problem
he jury trial of a Chilliwack woman accused of stealing more than $40,000 from an RCMP exhibit room continues into its third week. Jaime Tiller who worked as an exhibit custodian at the Chilliwack detachment is charged with one count of theft over $5,000 and one count of breach of trust after a routine exhibit audit in August 2011 revealed $37,000 of Canadian currency, $46 in US currency and nearly $4,000 in Government of Canada cheques was missing. Crown counsel EB IRST Louisa Winn and Rebecca Beeny First reported on have so far called chilliwacktimes.com a number of witnesses against Tiller including police officers, her supervisor, her union representative, members of City of Chilliwack staff and a friend who Tiller lived with for a period of time. The BC Supreme Court trial started slow as the nine women and three men in the jury were frequently excused and called back into the courtroom to deal with objections and legal clarifications. So far the Crown has painted a picture of a woman who had access to everything in the exhibit room, and { See TILLER, page A7 }
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