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Conservatives could be spoilers: ClarkRobert FreemanThe Progress

Governments almost always lose byelections, B.C. Premier Christy Clark said, before meeting with the Chilliwack-Fraser Rotary Club on Wednesday.

Nevertheless, were going to have an outstanding candidate, she said, when the partys nomina-tion contest does get underway.

However, the Premier said it would be bizarre if the strongly

conservative riding of Chilliwack-Hope bucked political history and sent an NDP MLA to Victoria.

The only way for the NDP to win here would be for the BC Conservatives to act as a spoiler and split the conservative vote, she said.

This (byelection) is the first chance any community in BC will get to say No to handing over our government to the NDP in the May, 2013 provincial election, she said.

Im really hopeful the voters of Chilliwack will honor (Barry Penners) legacy and support his party in the byelection, she said.

Rotary Club rules prohibited the Premier from talking politics during the noon-hour meeting.

Penner announced his resigna-tion as MLA earlier this month in order to return to private law practice.

The BC Liberals have not field-ed a nomination candidate since Diane Janzen withdrew her name,

yet two NDP candidates and one BC Conservative candidate have announced nomination bids so far.

BC Conservative Leader John Cummins also visited the Chilliwack-Hope riding on Monday.

He claimed the party doesnt need to split the conservative vote to win the byelection, just draw on voters who stayed home rather than vote for BC Liberals in the last election.

River bank protection could top $5 millionJennifer Feinberg The Progress

Steps to prevent further flooding in Chilliwacks unprotected areas will cost anywhere from $1.3 million up to a little more than $5 million.

Some property owners in the Carey Point area, on the northern end of Chilliwack, suffered localized flooding when a berm outside the east dike failed during the 2011 Fraser River Spring Freshet.

Significant erosion has been a head-ache for Chilliwack officials for years, with a shifting scour hole eating away at rip rap all along the riverbank from Carey Point to Island 22.

Council received a report Tuesday from city staffer Terra Friesen contain-ing a range of engineering solutions prepared by consultants Northwest Hydraulic Consultants.

NHC recommended the least expen-sive of three options for Chilliwack, at a cost of $1.3 million. The alignment offered the most longevity, cost effi-ciency, as well as an access road and a $75,000 check dam to protect Orchard slough, according to the report.

The most expensive solution,v at $5.1 million, would see an access road built, and bank protection with an estimated 7,000 truckloads of gravel. Added to that would be up to $150,000 in annual main-tenance costs.

Options 1 and 2 however come with alignments set back from the river, which wont include the more costly bank protection work stretching 300 feet into the river.

The flooded property owners of Chilliwack have stated they would like to see the city go with the $5.1 million option with full bank protection.

The armoured berm, called an orphan dike by some, was built close to the river

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For Jeff Hanson, it seems like just yesterday he was standing on a mound of gravel trying to picture what his new school would look like.

Honestly, at the time, I thought I could picture it, but I did not picture this, the vice principal of Rosedale community traditional school said as he looked out one of the upper level classroom windows to a birds eye view of the community.

Its more incredible than I could have possibly imag-ined.

The new kindergarten to Grade 9 school, which is located on the old middle school grounds, officially opens to its students on Jan. 3.

The Progress was invited in for an advanced tour.

Our teachers have been itching to get in here and you cant blame them, said

Hanson.The new facility is 7,500

square metres, with two lev-els, and has a capacity for 510 students. Thats almost double the square metres of the two old schools com-bined, and space for approx-imately 70 more students than the school currently has registered.

While the new class-rooms are smaller than the old ones, the storage space is more abundant with built-in cubby holes, shelves, and additional space behind the whiteboards. Most also have a wall of windows that are equipped with electronic steel shutters to cut down on glare, or darken the room if needed.

Specialty teachers were allowed input into the design of their classrooms. The art teacher requested additional windows for her room, the librarian determined where the book stacks would be built, and the music room was designed to accommo-

date both music and aca-demic courses with insu-lated walls, floors made of specialized rubber, and 25 large baffles hanging from the ceiling to manage the acoustics in the room just the way the music teacher had wanted.

These teachers now have a space they have ownership of, said outgoing principal Todd McLean.

Being true to B.C. roots, the new school is a wood lovers dream. Some rooms have massive, exposed wood beams; nearly every wall is detailed with slats of wood accents; and many of the ceilings also have hanging wood slats.

In the hallways, ceilings

are detailed with bulkheads that follow the pattern of the curved, red lines in the polished cement floor.

You could resemble [the lines] to a river flowing, the only thing is, its not a blue river, its red, our school colour, said Hanson.

But its the space in the hallways that most are talk-ing about.

Its one of the first things people notice, look at the room, look at how wide the hallways are, said Hanson. Theyre shocked at how wide they are. Even upstairs, in the middle school class-room wing, where theres lockers, theres still a lot of space.

The school facility isnt

the only thing sparkling new. The athletic fields have also been upgraded.

The field used to be almost like a swamp land, said Hanson. It was an awful, slushy, muddy, hole-infested field, that couldnt be used from November to April.

But now, there are two official-sized soccer pitch-es; one that is sand-based, which will allow for better drainage, and the other that has been risen above the flood plain.

The basketball courts have also been resurfaced, and three official sized ten-nis courts have been built.

Ive heard so many things about how Rosedale used to

be a booming community, hustling and bustling, said Hanson. But over the years, the community has grown tired.

Hanson believes the new community school could change that.

This place could really become a community hub, said Hanson. I just think when people really under-stand whats here, that theyve got so much right here at their fingertips, theyre going to come.

Demolition of the old Rosedale middle school will commence in January, and demolition of the two-storey section of the old elementa-ry school will also take place sometime in the new year.

Jeff Hanson, vice principal of Rosedale community traditional school, stands in one of the upstairs classrooms overlooking the tennis courts at the new school. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS

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Critics say email shows salmon inspectors bias

Jeff NagelBlack Press

Federal officials in charge of fish disease testing are denying they deliberately set out to quash claims that a dangerous salmon virus was detected this fall in wild Pacific stocks.

The Cohen Commission into the decline of Fraser River sockeye salmon heard new evidence Friday

that critics say suggests federal agencies were willing to suppress the truth about risks to salmon to protect industry and trade.

One email entered in evidence came from a B.C. manager of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), which swiftly investigat-ed alleged findings of Infectious Salmon Anaemia (ISA) virus and then refuted those reports.

Joseph Beres wrote to CFIA colleagues Nov. 9 to praise their very successful performance in briefing the media on their initial findings refuting the independent tests.

It is clear that we are turning

the PR tide to our favour, Beres said in the email. One battle is won, now we have to nail the sur-veillance piece, and we will win the war also.

Dr. Kim Klotins, the acting national manager of disease con-trol contingency planning at the CFIA, said staff can get a little bit exuberant in internal emails.

I really cant speak to what he was thinking, she said under cross-examination.

My read is there is not a par-ticular viewpoint that were follow-ing, Klotins told the commission. The point of surveillance is to find out if is there or is not there.

Dr. Stephen Stephen, the direc-tor of DFOs Biotechnology and Aquatic Animal Health Sciences Branch, also rejected suggestions federal employees pre-judged this falls ISA investigation.

Were not about disproving any-thing, he said. Were about prov-ing the facts.

He and other federal panelists defended CFIAs recent determina-tion that re-testing failed to confirm any presence of ISA in several wild salmon collected separately by SFU professor Rick Routledge and independent biologist Alexandra Morton.

Stephen said the need for accu-

racy in announcing disease find-ings is critical, because of poten-tial major impacts to international and domestic trade, as well as fishermen, fish farmers and First Nations.

Some of the scientists who con-ducted the lab tests for Routledge and Morton that delivered the ini-tial positive results testified they felt attacked or intimidated by CFIA during the follow-up inves-tigation.

Ottawa was mainly interested in finding faults with their methodol-ogy, they said.

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Former NDP candidate seeks byelection nominationRobert FreemanThe Progress

Kathleen Stephany, a Harrison Hot Springs resident and for-mer provincial NDP candidate in Langley, has announced her bid for the partys nomination in Chilliwack-Hope.

A registered nurse and teacher of ethics in the nursing program at Douglas College, Stephany is also a former B.C. coroner in charge of special investigations who gained a reputation in 2005

as a whistleblower.Stephany is also no stranger

to business success, having run her own psychological counsel-ling practice, but she said gov-ernment should represent all the people, not just the elites.

We have a society where we can have it all, she said, it doesnt have to be on the backs of the poor.

In the 2009 election, Stephany ran against sitting BC Liberal MLA Mary Polak.

Stephany said she was reluc-

tant at first to seek the NDP nomination in Chilliwack-Hope because it is such a large riding, and she only recently became a permanent resident in Harrison Hot Springs.

But weve always had a week-end place here in Harrison, she said.

Although the riding is a long-time conservative stronghold under BC Liberal MLA Barry Penner, Stephany said she believes Chilliwack-Hope is ripe for the taking by the NDP in the

upcoming byelection.The demographics are

changing out here, she said. I think people are ready for a change.

I think the NDP has done a lot of changing and growing too, she added.

Dennis Adamson, Yale elec-toral area director at the Fraser Valley Regional District, declared his bid for the NDP nomination back in April.

No date has been set for the NDP nominating meeting.

No surprises in librarys nameJennifer FeinbergThe Progress

The new library on the south side of Chilliwack will be known simply as the Sardis library, after a vote by city council Tuesday.

The new library on

Tyson Road will be built in 2013 and it needed a name, according to the staff report.

Sardis library was a clear preference with the public in an open house survey, along with Watson Glen Library, which a few respondents

favoured.The issue of finding

a new library name was referred to the Fraser Valley Regional Library (FVRL) officials, who responded that Sardis library was their pre-ferred option.

Some may not be

aware that the down-town Chilliwack library was originally called the Salish library at first, but over time people kept referring to it as the Chilliwack library and it [email protected]/CHWKjourno

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VICTORIA I recently sat down with Premier Christy Clark for a year-end interview to talk about her eventful first year back in politics. Here are excerpts from that discussion:

TF: People in general are a bit cynical about the treaty pro-cess. You could say that about Sophie Pierre [former Ktunaxa chief and chair of the independent B.C. Treaty Commission]. In her report this year she talked about the mounting debt from 20 years of negotiations and basically gave an ultimatum to fix it or shut it down. Do you see the commission continuing as it is, or do you see some changes ahead?

PCC: Were not planning any significant changes to it. We are starting to see, just now, the fruits of all the work from the minis-

try and from the government and from the treaty commission. And thats all starting to move pretty quickly. The Taku River

Tlinglit economic agreement [min-ing development and protected areas in the Atlin area], there are a number of these agreements that are starting to flow out, and its been a long, slow, frus-trating process. So

now is the wrong time to walk away from the process, because theres been 20 years of work invested in this, and were finally starting to see the fruits of it.

TF: A related subject is the pro-posed Enbridge Northern Gateway

oil pipeline. Theres a lot of aborig-inal opposition to that. The federal Natural Resources Minister, Joe Oliver, not too long ago called this a nation building project. It cer-tainly fits with your jobs strategy. Do you support the concept of the pipeline?

PCC: First of all, we are four-square behind the concept and soon to be reality of the lique-fied natural gas pipelines, which would take B.C. gas and get it to the port at Kitimat. There is pretty much unanimous First Nations support along the way, community support, through the environmental approval process, its all working.

The Enbridge proposal is far from that. Being able to get triple the price for Canadian oil would be a big benefit for Canada over-all. But the project is one where

we have to examine both the costs and benefits. Thats why its in the environmental approval process. This is the first of its kind, so I think we have to get a good look at it, and once we have the facts before us, we can have a debate about whether it should go ahead.

TF: The carbon tax. Do you think its working, and will we see changes in the years to come?

PCC: I think that its prob-ably affecting peoples and busi-nesses decisions about their reli-ance on carbon as a source of energy. I dont want to overstate that, though. The thing about the carbon tax is that its hard to know how much difference its made. But I think anecdotally we see that it has made some differ-ence.

We are in the process now of consulting with both the job creator community and citizens about where theyd like us to go next with the carbon tax. We have to keep in mind that the economy is fragile. But we want to remain a leader on the environment, which where we are right now in North America.

The interview also touched on

Clarks efforts to ease the pain of getting rid of the HST, and other issues. You can find the full text at www.theprogress.com by pointing to the News tab and clicking on B.C. News..

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Premier Christy Clark on her political yearBC VIEWS

Setting the toneWhile all the sound and fury over education bargaining in the past four

months has come from the B.C.Teachers Federation and BC Public School Employers Association, some real and substantive bargaining has been taking place.

Unfortunately, it doesnt involve the teachers.The BCPSEA has quietly concluded an agreement in principle with rep-

resentatives of the Canadian Union of Public Employees and other unions representing support staff in the K-12 public education system. The agree-ment was announced on Thursday.

The agreement is not a final contract, but rather an overarching frame-work which will apply if school districts can come to an agreement with their local unions by Feb. 29.

The agreement in principle calls for no wage increases from 2010 to 2012, but does have a wage reopener clause, should provincial guidelines calling for a net zero result from contracts change. It does include some additional money, notably $7.5 million annually for preparation time for educational assistants, and $550,000 for a support staff education and adjustment committee.

CUPE has not been beating the political drums against the provincial government over education funding, as has the BCTF. Rather, it has worked diligently with the employers representative to come up with a realistic contract that calls for no concessions. At the same time, it recog-nizes that the taxpayers ability to pay more has all but run out.

Nor has it brought in moves designed to put pressure on parents, administrators and school districts, such as refusing to do report cards or formally meet with parents to discuss student progress, as the BCTF has.

The BCTF has legitimate issues about class size and composition, and how to resolve a lawsuit it won over past changes to its contract. However, it needs to bargain constructively, as the support staff unions have. The edu-cation system should be functioning fully, in order to carry out its mandate of developing todays children into tomorrows responsible adults.

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MAKING CHRISTMAS BRIGHT

Karen Frank, a member of the Chilliwack Golf and Country Club, adds another toy to the pile during a fundraiser for Chilliwack Community Services on Wednesday. Frank was one of about 80 club members who donated toys, money and food to Chilliwack Community Services to be given out with this years Christmas hampers. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS

Support for seniors lunch appreciated

Pedestrian who took a tumble says thanksI would like to thank

the lady who stopped her vehicle in the mid-dle of the traffic lane at the Cottonwood Mall Friday afternoon, to

help me up after I had tripped over a curb and fallen flat on my face. After parking her vehi-cle she came back to make sure I was alright.

Unfortunately I did not get her name, but she was driving a blue van or SUV. Just want to reassure her that apart from a bruised knee

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Recently, the Chilliwack Family YMCA held its annual Seniors Potluck Luncheon, which has a long history of being a suc-cessful event, this year being no exception.

We, the YMCA Management and Staff , feel we could not create a sense of community without the support of many in our community who often go unrecognized.

We are referring to the CSS Culinary Arts program under the superb leadership of Terry McDougall. They roasted and

prepared our five generously donated turkeys to enable us to serve 200 guests. Thank You Terry and Students for all your hard work!

We thank Steve Elliot who gave us a wonderful perfor-mance, bringing back many fond Elvis memories.

To the dazzling Happy Tappers, led by Beryl Wilson, who brought energy, pizazz and sheer joy to their dance routines, we thank you.

We are grateful to our musi-cians, Rod and Alex, as well as

many volunteers who set-up, served, cleaned and made every-one feel welcome.

Thank you to the YMCA Preschool Children who sang with Santa and made a gift for every guest.

What happened in the room that day will linger in the hearts and minds of those who attended for a long time, which indeed means we accomplished the YMCA experience.

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The CFIA has promised systematic salmon sampling to test for ISA in B.C. waters starting next year.

The latest testimony came in the final days of the inquiry, which wrapped up hearings Dec. 19. A final report and recommendations are due by next June.

Craig Orr, executive director of the Watershed Watch Salmon Society,

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The bigger question is what is government doing to protect our interests as opposed to protecting very narrow interests like salmon farming and international, Orr said in an interview.

He said the latest email makes it hard to trust the federal agencies.

Salmon is a public resource, Orr said. Weve seen all kinds of evidence throughout Cohen that government information control is really restrict-ing independent science within DFO. Science is completely intertwined with politics.

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Eddie Gardner (left) leads a small group of protesters in song at MP Mark Strahls office last Thursday. The group of about 20 protesters marched from Coqualeetza to Strahls office to send the message that fish farms are not wel-come on the B.C. coast. Gardner spoke on behalf of the group and demanded an immediate response to the alleged detection of Infectious Salmon Anemia virus (ISAv) in B.C. wild salmon. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS

Land owners seek temporary help until flood fix can be found

with federal and provin-cial money in 1997, and never had any funding earmarked to maintain it, nor did it permit the city to gain access. But when it failed, it led to overbank flood flows which hit the unpro-tected floodplain, and impacted 15 local prop-erties situated between the dike and the river.

Ballam Road resident John Van Den Brink lost his crop of 400 to 500 hazelnut trees when the berm failed.

Its been hard on us, he told The Progress. If it happens again, it will just wipe us out.

A handful of the prop-erty owners are meet-ing with city officials on Thursday to urge them to look at another option: fixing the berm on an interim basis before next spring.

We want them to put the gravel berm back

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They are refusing to let it go.

We cant give up, he said. There are 370 acres back here with some of the best farm-land weve got. Its ludi-crous that we dont try and fix it, and down the road they will have to fix it sooner or later.

City officials received word from Emergency Management BC that no provincial money would be made avail-able to protect farmland outside a protected diked area.

In fact funding would only be supported if there was an imminent threat to the east dike from the 2011 Freshet, and there is an expec-tation that costs would be shared with the

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Council and govern-ment reps have been participating in discus-sions as part of a work-ing group formed after the berm failure, includ-ing property owners and farmers impacted by the overland flood-ing last summer.

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But Clark said the only way to beat the NDP in B.C. is to come together and get behind a single candidate.

Or face a repeat of the NDP government that ruled B.C. for two terms from 1991 to 2001.

The BC Liberals are suggesting that a recent poll is wrong that shows the NDP 11 percentage points ahead of the BC Liberals and the BC Conservatives, both tied at 23 percent.

Our internal polling shows a very different picture, a statement released by the Office of the Premier claimed on Wednesday. Its a two-way race between the BC Liberals and the NDP. The differ-ence between the BC Liberals and the NDP is much narrower than recent public polls. The BC Conservatives can only act as a spoiler.

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Dead Mans Cell Phone is a play that examines how we memorialize the dead, and how that remembering changes us. It is the odyssey of a woman forced to con-front her own assumptions about morality, redemption

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Jean is the accidental pro-tagonist, played by Renee Reeve. J.D. Dueckman takes the role of the dead man, Gordon, and UFV English instructor Virginia Cooke plays his mother, Mrs. Gottlieb. Colleen Plenert plays his widow, Hermia and Brandon Mindel, his brother Dwight. Other multiple roles

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Brandon Mindel and Virginia Cooke, in a scene from UFV Theatres production of Dead Mans Cell Phone, which opens Jan. 13.

Selections from the Metropolitan Opera in digital surround sound at a Chilliwack theatre are continuing in the new year.

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The Cineplex offered per formances are broadcast live, in high-definition across Canada. Chilliwack cinema joined the fold for the sixth sea-son last fall.

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Automatic, A/C, AM/FM CD/MP3 Player, Power Options, Alloys. BU4BFA CB

Stock# FB11935

+ HST*

+ HST*

+ HST*

+ HST*

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CLEARANCE PRICECLEARANCE PRICE






SCION XDSCION XD5 Speed, A/C, AM/FM CD/MP3 Player, Power Options, Cruise.

KU4B4M AA 00Stock# 4K12358

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CLEARANCE PRICE

SCION XDSCION XDAuto, A/C, AM/FM CD/MP3 Player,

Power Options, Cruise. KU4B4P AA 34

Stock# 4K12392

+ HST*

CLEARANCE PRICE

SCION TCSCION TC6 Speed, A/C, AM/FM CD/MP3 Player, Power Options, Alloys,

Moonroof. JF5C7M AA 32Stock# 7J12674

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2011 CAMRY HYBRID Model# BB3EKP BA SAVE UP TO $7,500SAVE UP TO $7,500 Stk# KB118762011 AVALON XLS2011 AVALON XLS Model# BK3DBT BB SAVE UP TO $5,000SAVE UP TO $5,000 Stk# BB124582011 TUNDRA 2WD2011 TUNDRA 2WD Model# RM5F1T AA SAVE UP TO $5,000SAVE UP TO $5,000 Stk# 1R12343

2011 HIGHLANDER HYBRID Model# BC3EHC BA SAVE UP TO $3,000 Stk# HB128312011 SIENNA XLE2011 SIENNA XLE Model# YK3DCT BB SAVE UP TO $2,500SAVE UP TO $2,500 Stk# CY122642011 4RUNNER2011 4RUNNER Model# BU3JRA EA SAVE UP TO $2,000SAVE UP TO $2,000 Stk# RB12841

We are offering huge savings on remaining new 2011 models. Vehicles will be sold on a rst come basis. All clearance prices include any Toyota Canada Consumer Cash Incentives as well as Valley Toyota discounts. Most priced at or below dealer invoice.

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2011 SIENNA XLE AWD2011 SIENNA XLE AWD Model# DK3DCT AA SAVE UP TO $2,500 SAVE UP TO $2,500 Stk# CD12375


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IT PAYS TO READ THE FINE PRINT: Finance & Lease offers for quali ed retail customers only, on new in-stock 2011 models sold & delivered between December 5/ 2011 January 3/ 2012. **All listed nancing from rates are for terms listed from on approved credit nanced through Toyota Financial Services. ***Cash purchase incentives can be different by model and trim level, please see Valley Toyota or Toyota Canada for complete program details. License, insurance, & applicable taxes are extra. Prices include a maximum for freight and pre-delivery inspection & environmental levies. Other payment plans available. Dealer may sell for less. Some conditions apply, and offers may change without notice. See Valley Toyota for more details.

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Valley Toyota is making room for next year with amazing deals on remaining 2011 Toyota Best Sellers!

2011 COROLLAcash purchase incentives up to

on select 2011

Corolla models****

2011 MATRIX

cash purchase incentives up to

on select 2011

Matrix models****

2011 CAMRY HYBRID


on select 2011 Camry

Hybrid models****

2011 TUNDRA

CREW-MAX 4WDcash purchase incentives up to

on select 2011 Tundra

4WD models****

2011 RAV4 4WDcash purchase incentives up to

on select 2011 Rav4 models****

2011 VENZA AWD


on select 2011 Venza

Documents

Thurs., Dec. 22, 2011 Chilliwack Progress