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• Lydia Ko pulls away with a 63 to win Queen City Championship for 3rd LPGA title of the year

  22-09-2024 23:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MAINEVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Lydia Ko extended her amazing summer run when she turned a two-shot deficit into a rout by closing with a 9-under 63 to win the Kroger Queen City Championship for her third LPGA Tour title of the season.
  Ko won for the third time in her last four starts, which includes her Olympic gold medal that gave the 27-year-old from New Zealand enough points for the LPGA Hall of Fame.
  It also includes another major in the Women’s British Open, this one at St. Andrews.
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• Billy Horschel’s eagle seals BMW PGA Championship win in playoff with McIlroy

  22-09-2024 23:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VIRGINIA WATER, England (AP) — Billy Horschel became the first American golfer to win the BMW PGA Championship twice when he holed a brilliant eagle to beat four-time major winner Rory McIlroy in a playoff on Sunday.
  Horschel showed no sign of nerves when he sank a long putt from near the edge of the green on the second playoff hole, and then hugged McIlroy warmly.
  “It’s always one of my most special weeks of the year. I enjoy coming here. I feel a sense of ease, I feel a sense
  
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• Aranda homers in a third straight game and the Rays beat the Blue Jays 4-3 for a 3-game sweep

  22-09-2024 23:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Jonathan Aranda homered in a third straight game and the Tampa Bay Ray beat the Toronto Blue Jays 4-3 on Sunday to complete a three-game sweep.
  Aranda gave the Rays a 2-1 lead on his two-run drive against Zach Pop in the sixth inning. Aranda has connected for six of his 10 career homers against the Blue Jays.
  Pinch hitter Christopher Morel had an seventh-inning sacrifice fly off Génesis Cabrera (3-3) before Brandon Lowe’s solo homer in the eighth ma
  
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• Spending deal averts a possible federal shutdown and funds the government into December

  22-09-2024 23:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional leaders announced an agreement Sunday on a short-term spending bill that will fund federal agencies for about three months, averting a possible partial government shutdown when the new budget year begins Oct. 1 and pushing final decisions until after the November election.
  Lawmakers have struggled to get to this point as the current budget year winds to a close at month’s end. At the urging of the most conservative members of his conference, House Spea
  
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• RCMP unveil Cenotaph, Wall of Honour on anniversary of Const. Rick O’Brien’s death

  22-09-2024 22:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MAPLE RIDGE – The Ridge Meadows’ RCMP detachment is now home to a pair of memorials paying tribute to one of their officers killed in the line of duty last year.In a private ceremony late last week, the anniversary of Constable Frederick “Rick” O’Brien’s death was commemorated with the unveiling of a Cenotaph and Wall of Honour at the RCMP’s outlet at Haney Place.The accolades follow a similar tribute in Regina earlier this month when O’Brien was a
  
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• Cost of housing, food is a quality of life concern among Chilliwack’s low-income households: study

  22-09-2024 20:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK – A lack of affordable housing, food insecurity, and employment are core issues making life difficult for low-income residents across Chilliwack.
  That’s what local politicians are seeing in a 73-page Poverty Reduction Plan set to come before city council on Tuesday, which suggests more collaboration between governments and community organizations as the solution.
  The Urban Matters study, part of a larger two-year healthier community plan launched in 2022, reflects months o
  
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• Cost of housing, food is a quality of life concern among Chilliwack’s low-income households: study - Fraser Valley Today

  22-09-2024 20:46
  Cost of housing, food is a quality of life concern among Chilliwack’s low-income households: study  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• As season winds down, an interesting off-season awaits for the Toronto Blue Jays

  22-09-2024 18:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — A late-season Blue Jays news release in 2023 trumpeted the team’s push to the post-season and release of playoff ticket info ahead of the final homestand.
  The main hook of this year’s offering was instead promotional in nature. It focused on the possibility of fans breaking a stadium record for most one-dollar hotdogs consumed in a season.
  What a difference a year makes.
  The Blue Jays, who made the playoffs in three of the last four years, have been under the .500 mar
  
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• Erling Haaland scores his 100th goal for Manchester City

  22-09-2024 18:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Erling Haaland scored his 100th goal for Manchester City by giving his team the lead against Arsenal in the Premier League on Sunday.The Norway international reached the landmark figure on his 105th appearance for the defending champion.Haaland, who has been nominated for the Ballon d’Or award for the best soccer player in the world this year, has been in outstanding form this season with his latest goal taking his total for the campaign to 10 in all compet
  
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• New seats redrew B.C. legislature’s floor plan. They bring political calculations too

  22-09-2024 18:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Work crews have been busy in the British Columbia legislature over the summer, prying apart desks in the historic chamber and piling them up in hallways as they tried to work out how to fit in six more seats.
  The renovation, with an estimated budget of $300,000, including new red carpet, was needed to accommodate 93 members of the legislature who will be sitting there after the Oct. 19 provincial election.
  The carpenters and carpet layers weren’t the only ones pondering c
  
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• Perčič plays overtime hero as Spruce Kings win in Chilliwack - My PG Now

  22-09-2024 17:30
  Perčič plays overtime hero as Spruce Kings win in Chilliwack  My PG Now
  
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• CRIME STOPPERS: Most Wanted – Week of September 22, 2024

  22-09-2024 17:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Here are three people wanted by police in our region this week. This list is provided by Crime Stoppers.
  Name: Antonio Nolasco PadiaAge: 28
  Height: 5’7” ftWeight: 210lbs
  Hair: Black/BrownEyes: Blue
  Wanted: Fail to Comply with Probation Order x3
  Warrant in effect: September 10, 2024
  Parole Jurisdiction: Chilliwack
  Name: Roy PelgromAge: 40
  Height: 5’9” ft Weight: 271
  Hair: Brown Eyes: Blue
  Wanted: Unlawfully at Large
  Warrant in effect: August 6, 2024Parol
  
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• One dead, one injured in Langley gang shooting

  22-09-2024 14:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LANGLEY — A shooting connected to gang activity has left one person dead and another in the hospital in Langley. The incident on Saturday evening (Sept. 21), is being investigated by the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT).
  According to an IHIT news release, Langley RCMP responded to reports of shots fired near the intersection of 196 Street and 84 Avenue around 6:30 p.m. Officers arrived and found two men with gunshot wounds. One man was pronounced dead at the scene, while the o
  
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• TIFF film about Indigenous resilience coming to Chilliwack theatre - Chilliwack Progress

  22-09-2024 14:35
  TIFF film about Indigenous resilience coming to Chilliwack theatre  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• TIFF film about Indigenous resilience coming to Chilliwack theatre - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  22-09-2024 14:35
  TIFF film about Indigenous resilience coming to Chilliwack theatre  Agassiz Harrison Observer
  
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• Calgary couple find their ‘Zen’ through axe throwing, compete in world championships

  22-09-2024 14:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Nick Kolomyja reckons axe throwing may have saved his life.
  After 30 years as a welder working long hours in heavy construction, he opened an axe and knife-throwing venue in Calgary with his wife last year.
  “You work 21 days straight. I never got to see my kids. I was burnt out, worked hard, found this, found a new passion in life and just went for it,” said Kolomyja, 45.
  “It’s crazy because I always look back on it a little bit and think axe throwing prob
  
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• A look at the new districts in B.C.’s fall election as legislature grows to 93 seats

  22-09-2024 13:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Oct. 19 election in British Columbia will feature new electoral districts that increase the number of seats in the legislature from 87 to 93. Here is a look at some of the new seats:
  Vancouver
  The biggest change in Vancouver is the creation of three seats from an area largely covered by Vancouver-False Creek and Vancouver-Fairview in the last election. The new ridings are Vancouver-Yaletown, Vancouver-South Granville and Vancouver-Little Mountain.
  The NDP took both previous seats in 2020, wi
  
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• Trudeau to attend United Nations General Assembly amid turbulence around the world

  22-09-2024 12:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to be in New York this week for the 78th meeting of the United Nations General Assembly and the Summit of the Future amid increasing geopolitical instability around the world.
  “Canada will have a leading role in making the world fairer and more prosperous,” Trudeau said in a news release last week. “I look forward to working with other leaders to accelerate progress on our shared priorities and build a better future for ever
  
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• Day 2 of B.C. election campaign sees Conservatives and New Democrats in Metro area

  22-09-2024 12:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s New Democrats and the B.C. Conservatives are set to take their election tours to Metro Vancouver cities today as the campaign enters its second day.
  John Rustad’s B.C. Conservatives are scheduled to be in Surrey, with David Eby’s New Democrats focusing on Metro Vancouver.
  Eby spent Saturday criss-crossing the Lower Mainland with stops in Richmond, North Vancouver, Langley and Burnaby.
  Rustad was on Vancouver Island Saturday night after openi
  
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• City of Montreal, insurers question future of basement apartments after floods

  22-09-2024 12:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Pasquale Monaco says he’s debating whether to keep renting out the two-bedroom basement apartment of the Montreal building he owns after it was flooded — again — in August, when the remnants of tropical storm Debby sent four feet of water rushing into the space.
  Monaco says the basement of the five-unit building in the St-Leonard borough has been flooded eight times in the last five years, including five times with more than three feet of water.
  “I don&rs
  
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• Sri Lanka’s presidential election goes into 2nd round of vote counting for 1st time in history

  22-09-2024 11:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s presidential election has gone into a second round of vote counting on Sunday for the first time in history as the incumbent liberal President Ranil Wickremesinghe has been eliminated.
  Marxist lawmaker Anura Kumara Dissanayake leads early official results in Sri Lanka’s presidential election, according to tallies released on Sunday by the Election Commission.
  The election, contested by 38 candidates, was largely a three-way race between Dis
  
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• Perčič Plays Overtime Hero in Chilliwack - Prince George Spruce Kings

  22-09-2024 08:47
  Perčič Plays Overtime Hero in Chilliwack  Prince George Spruce Kings
  
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• Whitecaps fall to tough Galaxy in California

  22-09-2024 08:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CARSON — The Vancouver Whitecaps, trying to preserve energy for Wednesday’s Canadian Championship showdown against Toronto FC, came up on the short end of a 4-2 Major League Soccer decision on Saturday against the host Los Angeles Galaxy.
  The Whitecaps had Brian White back in the starting lineup, and the Caps’ all-time leading MLS goal scorer would register his ninth goal in his past eight appearances, while Sam Adekugbe scored a late marker for his first career goal in the MLS
  
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• Over 100 rockets fired from Lebanon into Israel, with some hitting near northern city of Haifa

  22-09-2024 07:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Over 100 rockets were fired into Israel from Lebanon early Sunday, with some landing near the northern city of Haifa, as Israel and the Hezbollah militant group appeared to be spiraling toward all-out war following months of escalating tensions.Israeli first responders say the early morning barrage on Sunday wounded at least three people near Haifa, damaged buildings and set cars on fire.
  The barrage came after an Israeli airstrike in Beirut killed at least 37 people, incl
  
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• Harrison Hot Springs elects new mayor in landslide, rejects two former officials in by-election

  22-09-2024 07:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HARRISON HOT SPRINGS — Voters in the Village of Harrison Hot Springs have selected a new mayor Saturday in resounding fashion and rejected an attempt by a former councillor to become its new mayor.
  According to preliminary results posted on the village’s website Saturday night (Sept. 21), and verified by Chief Election Officer Kelly Ridley, voters have voted in Fred Talen, who garnered 541 votes, ahead of second-place finisher Greg Dykstra, who received 204 votes, and third-place fin
  
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• White Sox lose 119th game to tie the AL record as the Padres win 6-2 behind 3 home runs

  22-09-2024 05:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Chicago White Sox tied the American League record with their 119th loss on Saturday night, when Xander Bogaerts and Elias Díaz each hit a two-run homer to help the San Diego Padres win 6-2 and move closer to a playoff spot.The White Sox (36-119) matched the AL mark set by the 2003 Detroit Tigers, who finished 43-119. One more defeat for Chicago over its final seven games would equal the post-1900 record of 120 losses by the 1962 expansion New York Mets. Chicago
  
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• Colorado Rapids secure MLS playoff berth with 2-0 victory over Toronto FC

  22-09-2024 05:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  COMMERCE CITY — U.S. international Reggie Cannon scored in his first Colorado start and Djordje Mihailovic converted a late penalty as the Rapids sealed an MLS playoff berth with a 2-0 win over a rejigged Toronto FC side Saturday.
  The win vaulted Colorado (15-10-5, 50 points) past Los Angeles FC into third place in the Western Conference.
  It’s been an impressive turnaround under first-year Rapids coach Chris Armas, who was fired by Toronto in July 2021 after just 11 games (1-8-2) in
  
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• Wallstedt helps Wild knock off Jets 5-2 in pre-season test

  22-09-2024 05:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — Jesper Wallstedt left a lot Jets hopefuls shaking their heads on Saturday night.
  The Minnesota goalie stopped 38 of 40 shots as the Wild whipped Winnipeg 5-2 in an NHL pre-season game.
  Ben Jones, Jakub Lauko, Graeme Clarke, Daemon Hunt and Caeden Bankier scored for Minnesota.
  Colby Barlow and Colin Miller replied for Winnipeg.
  Kaapo Kahkonen made 23 saves on 28 shots for Winnipeg at the Canada Life Centre.
  As per a typically sloppy pre-season game, there were a myriad of turnove
  
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• Israel raids and shuts down Al Jazeera’s bureau in Ramallah in the West Bank

  22-09-2024 04:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israeli troops raided the offices of the satellite news network Al Jazeera in the Israeli-occupied West Bank early Sunday, ordering the bureau to shut down amid a widening campaign by Israel targeting the Qatar-funded broadcaster as it covers the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip.
  Al Jazeera aired footage of Israeli troops live on its Arabic-language channel ordering the office to be shut for 45 days. It follows an extraordinary order issued in May that
  
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• Blue Bombers blitz Elks 27-14 for sixth straight win

  22-09-2024 04:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Tre Ford’s return as the Edmonton Elks starting quarterback did not go according to plan on Saturday night.
  Ford lost a fumble and threw two interceptions as the West Division-leading Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat the Elks 27-14 at Commonwealth Stadium. The Blue Bombers (8-6) have won six in a row, and neutralized the CFL’s top scoring offence.
  The Elks lost for just the second time in seven games, falling to 5-9.
  With the score tied 10-10 in the fourth quarter, Ford&rs
  
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• CF Montreal claims important 2-0 win over Chicago as MLS playoff hunt heats up

  22-09-2024 03:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Josef Martinez and Caden Clark scored as CF Montreal defeated Chicago Fire FC 2-0 for a crucial Major League Soccer win on Saturday.
  Martinez opened the scoring in the 21st minute to put Montreal ahead before Clark buried the insurance-marker in the 74th before an announced 19,619 spectators at Saputo Stadium.
  Nathan Saliba, Kwadwo Opoku and captain Samuel Piette added assists as Montreal (8-12-10) extended its unbeaten run to three games (2-0-1) amid a late push to reach the ML
  
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• Writs issued for British Columbia’s 43rd Provincial General Election

  22-09-2024 01:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — Writs have been issued for British Columbia’s 43RD Provincial General Election, with Final Voting Day set for Saturday, October 19.
  Chief Electoral Officer Anton Boegman announced that voting is now open, urging all eligible voters to participate. “B.C. has the most accessible voting system in Canada,” said Boegman. “I encourage all eligible voters to cast their ballot and participate in British Columbia’s democracy.”
  Voters can cast their bal
  
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• PHOTOS: Garlic lovers gather at new 'stinking rose' festival in Chilliwack - Hope Standard

  22-09-2024 01:39
  PHOTOS: Garlic lovers gather at new 'stinking rose' festival in Chilliwack  Hope Standard
  
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• PHOTOS: Garlic lovers gather at new 'stinking rose' festival in Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  22-09-2024 01:39
  PHOTOS: Garlic lovers gather at new 'stinking rose' festival in Chilliwack  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Aranda homers as Rays squeeze past Blue Jays 3-2

  22-09-2024 01:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Jonathan Aranda homered for the second consecutive game, helping Taj Bradley and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-2 on Saturday.
  Aranda connected for a two-run shot in the third inning against Yariel Rodríguez (1-7), giving Tampa Bay a 3-0 lead. He also went deep in a 1-0 victory over Toronto on Friday night. Five of Aranda’s nine career homers have come against the Blue Jays.
  Bradley (7-11) pitched five innings of one-run ball in his
  
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• Vancouver Canucks sign Finnish goalie Kevin Lankinen to one-year contract

  22-09-2024 00:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Vancouver Canucks have signed Finnish goaltender Kevin Lankinen to a one-year contract.
  The 29-year-old, whose deal is worth US$875,000, appeared in 24 games last season for the Nashville Predators.
  Lankinen posted a record of 11-6-0, a 2.82 goals-against average, a .908 save percentage and one shutout.
  “Kevin is an experienced NHL player who will add to our depth in goal,” Canucks general manager Patrik Allvin said Saturday in a statement.“He had a solid season last year i
  
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• Alouettes clinch home playoff date with 24-12 win over Redblacks

  22-09-2024 00:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Montreal Alouettes remained unbeaten on the road and clinched a home playoff game with a 24-12 win over the Ottawa Redblacks on Saturday afternoon.
  Montreal (11-2-1) improved to 6-0-1 on the road and was the first team to beat Ottawa (8-5-1) at TD Place this season.The Alouettes snapped the Redblacks home unbeaten streak (6-1-1) in front of the largest crowd of the year at 23,530.
  A win would have clinched a playoff spot for Ottawa for the first time since 2018, but they inste
  
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