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‘Brutal attack’ leads to meth bust Three charged after woman tells police of sexual assault
BY TYLER OLSEN tolsen@chilliwacktimes.com
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wo men and a woman are facing multiple assault charges in connection with what police describe as a “brutal attack” last week at an Aitken Road home where Mounties found a meth lab. Police say a distraught woman was spotted late last Thursday night in the Yale Road West area. The 32-year-old Surrey woman appeared to have been assaulted and was taken to hospital. The woman had just escaped the Aitken Road home, where police say she was held against her will and assaulted “in a manner that can
only be described as a brutal attack, which included weapons, threats, and physical abuse.” Charges laid also include sexual assault. Police arrested a man and a woman in downtown Chilliwack Friday evening and found the third man in the home that same night. In a storage container on the property, police found a lab they say was likely used to produce methamphetamine. No cooking was being done at the time of the EB IRST bust and RCMP s p o k e s p e r s o n First reported on Cpl. Lea-Anne chilliwacktimes.com Dunlop said no meth was found at the home. She said that when police busted the lab, one key ingredient that would have been needed to produce the drug was missing. The three people arrested all have extensive criminal backgrounds and links to the drug
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Mounties investigating an alleged assault found a meth lab in a storage container at an Aitken Road property.
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Paperless future on city agenda BY PAUL J. HENDERSON phenderson@chilliwacktimes.com
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Stacks of Chilliwack city council agendas like this one accumulated by Times reporter Paul Henderson will be a thing of the past thanks to the new purchase of 17 Apple iPads.
n an effort to save time, money, trees, and to avoid some heavy lifting, city hall is about to go high-tech with the Apple iPad. Council agreed with a staff recommendation to move to electronic council packages on the popular new device in order to cut back on the thousands of sheets of paper used per year. Council agenda packages were an average of 320 pages in 2009. At an average of 29 meetings a year, staff calculate that, even with mostly double-sided copies, 156,600 sheets of paper are used per year involving just over 250,000 photocopy cycles. “It is anticipated that most of the paper used in council packages is ultimately recycled,” said the staff report prepared by direc-
Purchase of 17 Apple iPads means city will use 156,000 fewer sheets of paper tor of corporate services Robert Carnegie. Earlier this year, the number of council packages produced was reduced to 24 as the media were no longer given paper agendas and given digital versions only. At Monday’s meeting council approved the staff recommendation to purchase 17 iPads at $550 per unit. In a cost analysis, staff calculated the move would have a net savings of more than $8,000. The current practice of creating paper council packages for 29 meetings was estimated to cost $20,712.73—$1,760.30 in paper, $6,229.20 in photocopying expenses and $12,723.23 in labour. Staff estimated it took 11 hours of time per
meeting to create the packages. The paperless cost was estimated at $12,576.41—$9,350 in one-time cost for the iPads, $500 for the software and $2,726.41 in labour. However, in a note in the staff report, director of finance Chris Crosman pointed out to council that there is no actual net cash benefit because the employees who are paid to make the photocopies will continue as full-time employees. Councillors are currently issued PC laptop computers, but the recommendation suggested the iPads are considerably less expensive and when returned those laptops “can be redeployed in other applications.”
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