Cementing the deal
Walter Hiller is excited. The president and chief project officer of Abbotsford Hospital and Cancer Centre Inc. grins like a boy as he smooths a hand over one of several architects' drawings that paper the boardroom walls.
 

Thousands of students shuffled in major move
In one of the biggest moves in Abbotsford School District history, five schools will be reconfigured for the 2006-07 school year.
 

Out of jail and back on the campaign trail
He spent 100 days behind bars in the Fraser Regional Correctional Centre in Maple Ridge but now that he's out, Marijuana activist Tim Felger wasted no time in setting his sights on Mike de Jong.
 

Trading 'green' for Green
He's switching one green party, so to speak, for another.
 

Final assisted living units in Abbotsford
The new wing of the Menno Terrace apartments on Marshall Road in Abbotsford will include 24 subsidized assisted living units, the Fraser Health Authority said Monday. That brings the total to 106 subsidized assisted living units in the city promised by province.
 

HIV/AIDS group takes action
A clinic, support groups, improved training, high protein food bank hampers - people dealing with HIV or AIDS can look forward to more services locally, while information sharing between those who care for them will be improved.
 

Libraries offer kids homework helpers
The days of filing cards and stamping out books have been replaced at public libraries in recent years by technology.
 

Poultry plant expanding
An Abbotsford poultry company is expanding its operation and looking to more than double its work force, something almost unheard of since last year's outbreak of avian influenza and subsequent loss of local jobs.
 

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