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Brig.-Gen. Terry Leversedge speaks Monday during a roll-in reception at Cascade Aerospace for a Hercules aircraft. Local employees will begin servicing the military aircraft as per a new six-year, $423.4 million contract. - JASON LANG/FOR THE TIMES

Herc repair crew ready to roll
Cascade Aerospace is reporting for duty. The Abbotsford-based aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul company celebrated its first large military contract Monday, with an official roll-in of a C-130 Hercules, a brigadier-general and a crowd of 500 well-wishers.

Trustees adopt 'compromise calendar'
At a school board meeting Monday night, Abbotsford school board trustees adopted a 'compromise calendar' by a 5-2 vote.

Hospital dream job is taking shape
You might marvel over the massive structure as you walk or drive past it, but perhaps no one is keeping a closer eye on the progress of the new Abbotsford regional hospital and cancer treatment centre than Paula Comey.

State Bank of India coming to Abbotsford
One of India's oldest and largest financial institutions will be opening a branch in Abbotsford this summer.

Mission tree law 'needed'
Trees - or rather, a draft tree protection bylaw - will be the big-ticket agenda item at a meeting in Mission this Thursday at Silverdale Elementary School.

City and groups start plan for the homeless
Social housing advocates and the City of Abbotsford may be partnering up to make some concrete changes in the lives of the community's homeless.

Disasters and divine warnings at city hall
Hurricanes, earthquakes, tidal waves, genocide, AIDS, war - if there is a kind and loving God, how on Earth could these terrible things happen? Are these simply due to Nature and human nature, or is there a higher power warning us human beings that we better behave?

Abby ER shares funds
MSA General Hospital is among 15 provincial hospitals that will share $7 million to ease congestion in their emergency rooms.

CRASH VICTIM IDENTIFIED BY POLICE
Police have identified the victim of a fatal motorcycle accident in Mission as 29-year-old Shane Collier of Port Coquitlam.

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