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Chief pleads guilty to sex crime BY PAUL J. HENDERSON phenderson@chilliwacktimes.com
Second time Jimmy George has been found guilty
ereditary Chief Jimmy George of the Aitchelitz band pleaded guilty to one count of sexual interference with a person under the age of 16 in court on Monday. George faced one charge in connection with incidents dating from March 1 and March 24 this year. This is not the first sexual assault charge where George has been found
guilty. In 2006, he stepped down as head of the society that runs Xyolhemeylh Child and Family Services, which provides child protection to native bands, after it was made public he was sentenced to three years in jail for sexual assaults on one or more Chilliwack girls in the 1980s. When the sexual assault charges were made public in June, George was suspended from his board
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of directors position at the Sto:lo Nation Society. His photo and information have now been removed from the website, but Sto:lo Nation Society president Joe Hall did not respond before press time as to George’s status. In 2008—between his previous convictions and this latest one— George was front-and-centre at the ceremony for the Stehiyaq Healing
and Wellness Village with Premier Gordon Campbell and other First Nation leaders after the presentation of a cheque for $1.5 million. Stehiyaq is a healing centre aimed at Aboriginal youth with addiction problems located in the Chilliwack River Valley at the location of what was a youth correctional facility and before that was a traditional First Nations village site. The official
opening was in April. Despite the optics of his tour of Stehiyaq with the Premier in 2008, Hall said George had no involvement with Stehiyaq. “Jimmy is a chief of the Aitchelitz First Nation, which is a member of the Ch-ihl-kway-uhk Tribe Society,” Hall told theTimes in June. “The society was involved in putting together the healing and wellness village, but he is not a part of the board.” George will next appear in court for sentencing Sept. 17.
‘Heroes’ save teen caught in Chehalis
MUSIC & MORE TEDDY BEAR CHECKUP
BY TYLER OLSEN tolsen@chilliwacktimes.com
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olice are calling four local people heroes after they saved the life of a 16-year-old girl in the Chehalis River Wednesday afternoon. AmeliaVictor had been swimming with friends in the Chehalis when the current became too strong, according t o R C M P EB IRST spokesperson First reported on C o n s t . Tr a c y chilliwacktimes.com Wolbeck. Fo r t u n a t e l y, 17-year-old Clinton Charlie and 14year-old Alisha Baines managed to drag their friend to a narrow bank and go for help. Police received a 9-1-1 call just after 5 p.m. reporting a death on the river. But thanks to the help of the
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Two-year-old Boston Hill gets a a medical checkup for his stuffed bear from Sandi Swecera at the Teddy Bear Picnic at Salish Park Wednesday.
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