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December 31, 2010
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Cosmetic change may not be legal
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Chilliwack raw milk dair y ordered to stop distributing unpasteurized milk is now calling its products cosmetics. Tearing a page from the history books, Our Cows cow-share cooperative now labels raw milk and raw-milk dairy products as Cleopatra’s bathing milk, raw milk skin care lotion and face cream, according to farmer Michael Schmidt. “Let’s be clear; these are not dairy products; these are cosmetics,” Schmidt told the Sun. “The contents of these cosmetic products are unpasteurized dairy products.” Not everyone is convinced. “Fraser Health’s position is that Our EB IRST Cows continues to First reported on violate the March 18, chilliwacktimes.com 2010 Supreme Court injunction prohibiting Home on the Range from packaging and/or distributing raw milk and/or raw milk products for human consumption and has issued a formal notice to the new operator demanding that he cease and desist,” Fraser Health spokeswoman Naseem Nuraney wrote in response to a query from the Sun. Our Cows member Gordon Watson left little doubt about his intended use for the cosmetics he is allotted: “I most certainly do drink the raw milk I receive as a dividend of my asset.” According to Health Canada, nonsterilized milk is unsafe to drink because it can contain bacteria such as salmonella, E. coli and listeria that may lead to potentially debilitating illnesses.
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Yonas Haile gives seven-year-old daughter Zee a push down the snow-covered hill at Prospera Centre on Wednesday. The layer of snow that blanketed Chilliwack gave kids a brief blast of fun, but it didn’t last.
he Chilliwack RCMP may solve fewer crimes than any other medium or large city’s police force, but that doesn’t mean the local cops are all Inspector Clouseaus, according to a Chilliwack Mountie. A recent Statistics Canada report on police resources put Chilliwack’s “weighted clearance rate” for 2009 at 18.5 per cent, a number that was the lowest of all Canadian police forces in cities with more than 50,000 people. Chilliwack’s rate was marginally lower than Burnaby and Langley Township but barely half that of Abbotsford. But RCMP spokesperson Cpl. LeaAnne Dunlop puts the blame for the low numbers on Chilliwack’s high property crime rate. Serious crimes are often easier to solve, because the victim and the offender often know each other and there are commonly witnesses. But property crimes are more difficult to clear. But that’s not to say the criminals are getting off the hook, according to Dunlop. “Generally speaking, we know that we have some property crime issues and generally speaking, property crimes are not often cleared. While we may catch the handful of people we think were doing a lot them, we can’t evidentiarily link them to every offence,” she said Dunlop is proud of the work See MOUNTIES, Page 5
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