The Valley Voice News - Chilliwack BC

Tuesday

May 21, 2013

Today's High

13°C

Low 11°C

POP 90%

Wednesday Outlook

Rain 14°C

Courtesy of

Environment Canada and

The Weather Network

What do the stars have in store for us this week?

Read Georgia Nicols' weekly here. She writes like she knows you.

This Week

May 19^th to May 26^th

All Signs:

This week the Sun moves into Gemini, joining Mercury, Venus and Jupiter all in the same sign. (Forget the twins, we've got quadruplets!) Unpredictable Uranus squares off with powerful Pluto and, on Friday, the Full Moon in Sagittarius awaits us. It's a busy week. Everyone will be hustling, talking to neighbours, friends and siblings, reading and writing, and coping with detours and the unexpected.

Read your weekly horoscope here

~ Posted with permission ~

The Stellar Voice

April 2013

Chilliwack

Real Estate Report

Compiled by Voice staff

Stats courtesy of CADREB

Chilliwack & District Real Estate Board Residential Sales Stats

There were 193 residential real estate sales in Chilliwack during April 2013, which is up from April 2012 when 187 were sold. There were 472 new residential listings in April this year down slightly from last year at this time when 458 were listed for sale. Total listings in April were 1,727 which is down from 1,815 listed last year.

Single Family Homes (SFH)

CADREB reports that there were 109 single family detached homes sold in April 2013, down from April 2012 when 117 were sold. Currently, there are 271 new SFH's listed compared to 243 listed last year in April. There were 922 listings in April this year compared to 2012 when 921 listed in the same period.

Town Homes

There were 38 Townhome sales in April 2013 compared to 41 that sold in April 2012. There were 78 new listings in April this year compared to April 2012 when there were 109 listed. A total of 312 were listed for sale in April 2012 which is down from 380 listed in April last year.

Mobile Homes

There were 16 mobile home sales in April 2013 compared to 8 that sold in April 2012. There were 14 new listings in April this year compared to 20 listed for sale last year at this time. There were 81 active listings in April 2013 compared to 75 listed in 2012.

Apartments

There were 24 apartment units sold in April 2013 compared to 16 that sold in April 2012. There were 78 new listings in April 2013 compared to 50 listed in April 2012. The total apt listings for sale this year to-date are 266 compared to 284 listed in April 2012.

Homes with Acreage

A total of 6 homes with acreage were sold in April 2013 compared to 5 that sold in April 2012. There were 31 new listings in April compared to 36 listed in this time last year. In total, there were 146 listings in this year compared to 155 in 2012.

Grand Total

Total residential sales in Chilliwack for March 2013 was $56,512,460 compared to last year when $55,804,517 changed hands.

For more information visit www.cadreb.ca

Today In History

May 21, 2013

This is the 141st day of the year
There are 224 days left in 2013

1863 Organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan.

1927 Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

1939 The Canadian National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa.

1940 British forces attack German General Rommel's 7th Panzer Division at Arras, slowing his blitzkrieg of France.

1977 "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Winter Garden New York City after 167 performances.

1979 White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.

1980 Joe Strummer of The Clash was arrested at a much-troubled gig in Hamburg, Germany, after smashing his guitar over the head of a member of the audience.

1981 Irish Republican hunger strikers Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O'Hara die on hunger strike in Maze prison.

1992 Amy Fisher, the so-called "Long Island Lolita," is arrested for shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco on the front porch of her Massapequa, New York, home.

2005 The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey.

Copy is courtesy of AP, Wikipedia, the History Channel, Historynet, This Day in Music and other sources. Google Images are borrowed for the day.

Our Readers Write

Our readers always have a voice with us and their opinion matters.

May 14, 2013

Our Hard Working Mayor

Chilliwack Mayor Sharon Gaetz

1:31am! Oh my goodness Craig. I hope you were able to get back to sleep. Jim and I have had a wonderful long weekend. Jim spoke today at Greendale MB Church and then we went out for lunch with some dear friends from Kelowna who lost their daughter in a terrible accident 9 years ago :-(

It was bittersweet catching up with them. We went for a long walk up at Hicks Lake and then went to visit our kids who are camping up at Cultus. And we have all day tomorrow - just emails to catch up on - and maybe some gardening...it is a beautiful thing to take some time off :-) I hope you get to do the same Craig - I think we might share the same kind of schedule.

May 14, 2013

Working Together

Beth McArthur, Ride to Live

Thank you very much. I hope between the two of us, and your followers, we can help this cause.

More letters here »

Chilliwack Gas Prices This Week

May 18th

138.9 Shell -Yale Rd.

Last Week

138.9 Husky - Young Rd.

Cheapest

15¢/gal Venezuela

S. America

Today's Crude Oil Price

$96.02/bbl up 4 am PST

$93.58/bbl yesterday

Courtesy of Bloomberg Energy

Recommended Reading

Steve Covey's

Grey Redemption

Colonel Simon Alexander, a famous African mercenary, languishes away in Black Beach Prison. Failing health makes an unsupported escape impossible, and the diplomatic process is failing as fast as his health.

Covey is a local Chilliwack author.

www.ScottDcovey.com

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Crime News

Subway Robbery

Masked man demands cash, gets away on BMX bicycle

Staff/Voice photos

ust after 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, a man went into the Subway Restaurant ...