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Chief It almost seems fated that Darnell Dyck would one day suit up for his dream hockey team
Brazen stunt keeps raw milk debate front and centre
BY TYLER OLSEN tolsen@chilliwacktimes.com
BY PAUL J. HENDERSON phenderson@chilliwacktimes.com
ike many Chilliwack minor hockey players growing up in the ‘90s, Darnell Dyck grew up idolizing the Chilliwack Chiefs. Many youngsters grow up dreaming to be a Maple Leaf, a Canadien or a Canuck. Darnell’s goal was always to be a Chief. “All those guys were my heroes, I wanted to be just like them,” he says today. Darnell didn’t just love the Chiefs; for more than a decade he was a Chief. In 1994, after his father, Barry Douglas, began doing play-by-play for the Chiefs and hosting a show for Shaw TV, the chief Chief, Harvey Smyl, welcomed Douglas and his young son into the tight-knit Chiefs family. There they remained for more than a decade. So when Darnell, now 19, learned last month that he would finally wear the Chiefs’ jersey in a real game, he was Darren McDonald/TIMES speechless and stunned. Darnell Dyck behind the bench He remembers taking the call (above) as stick boy with the from Smyl and learning he former Chilliwack Chiefs in would be a Chief; “It was the best feeling I’ve ever 2004/05. Darnell wearing the had in my life,” he told uniform of his dreams (right). the Times. But it was such a blur that he doesn’t recall what Smyl told him, or what he said in response. Smyl remembers a little better: “I just told him that he’s where he’s supposed to be. He’s coming to a situation, a
aw milk advocates and drinkers gulped down their unpasteurized goodness in protest in front of Fraser Health’s Chilliwack offices Tuesday morning. Ontario dairy farmer Michael Schmidt stood side-by-side with former Home on the Range raw milk dairy operator Alice Jongerden and cowshare member Rick Adam to make a point by drinking unpasteurized milk, taken from cows that day. Fraser Health has been trying to shut down Home on the Range f o r m o re t h a n two years and on Sept. 14 succeeded in forcing Jongerden to officially resign EB IRST as part of a court- First reported on ordered condi- chilliwacktimes.com tion. Schmidt—who is best known for beating 19 criminal charges related to his cowshare operation in Ontario—has taken over the Chilliwack dairy, which has been renamed Our Cows. Tuesday morning he set up a table and poured glasses of the raw milk, pasteurized milk and windshield washer fluid, suggesting it
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