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athome SPORTS Heat can’t cook Hogs in AHL home opener
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Skunked in the first match, close game Saturday
T UESDAY , O CTOBER 19, 2010
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Car crash claims two in Mission
MEI HORN TO THE HEAT
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ission RCMP said two people died as a result of a threevehicle crash on the Lougheed Highway Saturday afternoon. The incident occurred around 4 p.m. between Manson and Dewdney Trunk Roads, Cpl. Raina Siou said.
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Saxophone player Brandon Schellenberg, left, and the rest of the MEI Screaming Eagles marching band were on hand to play the national anthems at the Abbotsford Heat’s home opener Friday night at the Abbotsford Entertainment and Sports Centre. The Heat lost both weekend games to Rockford. For the complete story, see page A26, and for more great photos of the Heat home opener, see our special online gallery at www.abbotsfordtimes.com.
According to preliminary investigations, a car traveling eastbound along Lougheed stopped to make a left-hand turn when it was rearended by a black pickup truck The force of the impact pushed the turning vehicle into oncoming traffic, where it was struck headon by another car in the westbound lane. Siou said speed could have played a factor in the collision. RCMP Cpl. Wheeler said a crash reconstruction team had surveyed the site, but the investigation is ongoing and police are unsure about charges at this point. No details about the victims were made available. The area is not known to RCMP as a highcrash volume site. – RAFE ARNOTT
Policing at the heart of Abby city budget
Looking for public input on potential tax increases ROCHELLE BAKER editorial@abbotsfordtimes.com
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bbotsford City hall is pitching three different municipal tax scenarios for the 2011 budget, and it wants input from residents at a series of public forums that start tomorrow night. All three proposals include increased taxes
at a rate of either three, four or five per cent, and all three will impact policing – whether it be in a positive or negative way. City manager Frank Pizutto said the cost of services for the rapidly growing city of Abbotsford has outpaced development revenue the last couple of years. As costs will continue to rise in the coming year, the city will have to raise taxes to main-
MORE INSIDE ■ Mission council is considering tax increases between zero and 7.2 per cent. See page A6 for more details.
tain the status quo, he said. The tax increases would be divided between the Abbotsford Police Department, city operations and capital projects. A five per cent increase would dedicate 2.3 per cent to the
police, 1.7 per cent to city operations and one per cent to city infrastructure projects both new and old. Under this scenario the APD could hire six new officers, and city services would be maintained at the current level. The four per cent increase would dedicate two per cent to police and one per cent each to city operations and capital, resulting in a reduction of city services and no new police officers until 2012. see TAXES, page A5
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