THREAD: @currentfv has now been going for exactly a month. So I'm going to take a look back at what we've written.
1. The province wants to widen 24 km of highway in 5 years. This timeline is ambitious or, as Bowinn Ma put it, "tight."
https://tinyurl.com/jn3a9kxz 

2. The family of a prominent local hiker who took his own life last year is helping people with mental health troubles. Brook Morrison was known for quitting his job one year to hike the Pacific Coast Trail.
Read: https://tinyurl.com/jn3a9kxz 

3. We used an FOI request to obtain exclusive data on which BC communities were seeing the highest rates of COVID deaths. Abbotsford and Langley were both above average. Chilliwack was below. The gov't continues to not proactively release the info.
READ: https://tinyurl.com/2743zyze 

4. Are social workers underappreciated frontline responders? A UFV professor thinks so, and there is data bearing that out.
Read: https://tinyurl.com/2743zyze 

5. The City of Chilliwack is quietly planning what sounds to be a pretty damn cool park. It would connect trails on Vedder Mountain to the Vedder River and attract visitors from around the region.
READ: https://tinyurl.com/43d9u57p 

6. MLA Bowinn Ma prominently talked in the legislature about how adding lanes doesn't fix highway congestion. Now she is in charge of adding lanes to a congested highway. We asked her about that!
READ: https://tinyurl.com/43d9u57p 

7. We made a Spotify playlist with artists from around the Fraser Valley. (And we botched the url in the newsletter, so had to repost, but nevermind, we made a thing!)
https://open.spotify.com/embed/playlist/6ynQGCwSejQnVpZuKWheGd

8. We reported the Se:math First Nation is suing the City of Abbotsford over a piece of land it is expropriating next to a sacred burial site.
READ: https://tinyurl.com/27r9znjv 

9. We talked to a local grocery store worker about her pandemic. "It's been a trial," she said. She had important insight into how people interpret rules that don't make sense to them.
READ: https://tinyurl.com/ve7w4r5y 
That was Week ONE! Subscribe: http://www.fvcurrent.com 

10. We got our hands on documents that revealed that the government thinks widening Highway 1 all the way to Abbotsford. will cost more than $1 billion. One 5km stretch will cost $500 million.
READ: https://tinyurl.com/56jwyvse 

11. We broke down the new "circuit-breaker" restrictions. And, yes, we noted in the third sentence that they may not be around for just 3 weeks.
READ: https://tinyurl.com/446p8m5e 

12. Why are the Fraser Valley's house prices going crazy. We talked to the president of a local credit union. He pointed to interest rates, and said it is unlikely to continue.
READ: https://tinyurl.com/ykcy7w33 

13. Does Chilliwack need more politicians? Provincial guidelines suggest it should have added more councillors 50,000 people ago. But local politicians also know that it's a hard sell.
READ: https://tinyurl.com/3zu8ped2 

14. (You don't get to moan about this thread's length if you didn't write the stories.)
Do hiking trails hold the key to getting people who are resistant to traditional counselling? It's crazy this isn't super-common, IMO.
READ: https://tinyurl.com/yy6pjs95