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Police believe man met with foul play Karver Jesse Morford found dead in Ryder Lake home BY TYLER OLSEN tolsen@chilliwacktimes.com
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olice believe a Ryder Lake man found dead in his home Monday afternoon may have met with foul play. The body of Karver Jesse Morford, 35, was found Monday in his Ross Road home by a family member. Trauma on the body led Chilliwack serious crime officers to call in the Integrated Homicide Investigation Te a m ( I H I T ) . IHIT officers spent Tuesday and Wednesday EB IRST ps er aorpcehritnyg atnhde First reported on several outbuildchilliwacktimes.com ings for clues and an autopsy was scheduled for Wednesday to determine a cause of death. “I think it is a homicide, but we probably wouldn’t truly know that until after the autopsy,” said IHIT spokesperson Cpl. Dale Carr. “It’s not abundantly clear what [the cause of death] was.” A mile-long driveway snakes up to the home where Morford
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Chilliwack middle school Grade 7 students Christel Blesch and Chelsea Perkins show their enthusiasm for the upcoming districtwide field trip to a Chilliwack Bruins game at the event’s announcement Tuesday.
Meet me in the middle BY TYLER OLSEN tolsen@chilliwacktimes.com
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f the reaction of hundreds of Chilliwack middle school students Tuesday is any indication, spectators may want to bring titanium-reinforced earplugs to the Chilliwack Bruins’ Dec. 7 game against the Swift Current Broncos. On Tuesday, CMS students let out a deafening roar as Bruins and school district officials announced that every middle school student in the district will descend upon
Chilliwack Bruins hockey club invites entire middle school population to join them at Prospera Centre
Prospera Centre in December for a special field trip. The Bruins have bumped up their Dec. 7 encounter with the Swift Current Broncos from 7 p.m. time to 10:30 a.m. in the morning, which will allow all middle school students in the district to attend the game. But the game will be about more than having fun and watching
hockey, Bruins president Darryl Porter told the students. “You’re going to get homework,” he said. The reaction from the students would be familiar to any junior hockey referee. “Boooooooooo.” But despite learning that the field trip would feature a focus on physical fitness, healthy living and nutrition, the students came
around to Porter’s pitch. The aim is for the students to learn about what goes on behind the scenes for fine-tuned athletes like the Bruins to reach their personal ad physical fitness goals, and then to see that translated on the ice. School district superintendent See BRUINS, Page 11
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