Jenna Hauck

Family and friends of fallen RCMP officer Const. Rick O’Brien gather during the unveiling of a park bench dedicated to him at Fairfield Island Park in Chilliwack on Tuesday, March 28, 2024. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress)

Park bench dedicated to fallen B.C. RCMP officer Rick O’Brien

Fundraiser helps family, friends buy bench honouring Langley officer killed in line of duty

Family and friends of fallen RCMP officer Const. Rick O’Brien gather during the unveiling of a park bench dedicated to him at Fairfield Island Park in Chilliwack on Tuesday, March 28, 2024. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress)
Shawn Palmer (right) and others with Chilliwack People First, a self-advocacy group for people with disabilities, along with Chris Kizmann from the Salvation Army (second from right) were at the Care and Share Centre on April 25, 2024 following their successful food drive. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress)

Food drive: Disability-advocacy group in Chilliwack collects 900 lbs of food

Goal for self-advocacy group for people with developmental disabilities was to help people like them

Shawn Palmer (right) and others with Chilliwack People First, a self-advocacy group for people with disabilities, along with Chris Kizmann from the Salvation Army (second from right) were at the Care and Share Centre on April 25, 2024 following their successful food drive. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress)
Cree elder Emily Henry (Kihci Têpakohp Iskotêw Iskwêw) was honoured with a YWCA Women of Distinction Award in the Reconciliation in Action category. (YWCA)

Chilliwack elder honoured with YWCA Women of Distinction Award

Emily Henry (Kihci Têpakohp Iskotêw Iskwêw) recognized in ‘Reconciliation in Action’ category

Cree elder Emily Henry (Kihci Têpakohp Iskotêw Iskwêw) was honoured with a YWCA Women of Distinction Award in the Reconciliation in Action category. (YWCA)
Harold Zinke was honoured at City Hall for his 25th anniversary with the Downtown Chilliwack Business Improvement Association on Friday, May 10, 2024. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress)

‘It’s your smile and your wave’: B.C. street cleaner marks 25 years

‘Everything should be done the Harold Zinke way,’ says Trevor McDonald with Chilliwack BIA

Harold Zinke was honoured at City Hall for his 25th anniversary with the Downtown Chilliwack Business Improvement Association on Friday, May 10, 2024. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress)
An airplane cuts through the sky as the northern lights are seen over the Fraser River at Old Orchard Road in Chilliwack on Friday, May 10, 2024. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress)

OPINION: Technology helps Chilliwack photographer see auroras for first time

Millions now have ability to see northern lights firsthand as smartphone cameras see what eyes cannot

An airplane cuts through the sky as the northern lights are seen over the Fraser River at Old Orchard Road in Chilliwack on Friday, May 10, 2024. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress)
Deb Greenfield (right) of Yarrow and Holly McKeen of Chilliwack help set up ‘Clay 2024 - Passionate About Clay’ at the Chilliwack Cultural Centre on Tuesday, March 19, 2024. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress)

Lower Mainland potters share their passion with clay in Chilliwack show

Fraser Valley Potters Guild Association’s art exhibition is at Chilliwack Cultural Centre

Deb Greenfield (right) of Yarrow and Holly McKeen of Chilliwack help set up ‘Clay 2024 - Passionate About Clay’ at the Chilliwack Cultural Centre on Tuesday, March 19, 2024. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress)
The Spirit Abreast dragon boat team from Chilliwack, seen here at a regatta in Penticton in 2023, is having a recruiting event on April 9, 2024. (David Arthurs)

Breast cancer survivors wanted to paddle with Chilliwack dragon boat team

People can learn more at Spirit Abreast’s upcoming meet-and-greet at Bob Chan-Kent Family YMCA

The Spirit Abreast dragon boat team from Chilliwack, seen here at a regatta in Penticton in 2023, is having a recruiting event on April 9, 2024. (David Arthurs)
From left, Kyle McMillan, vocational councillor Jodie Dessau, Alec Chelczynski, and Kara-Lyn Loewen with Chilliwack Society for Community Living make Tommy’s Choice Dog Cookies on Feb. 21, 2024. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress)

B.C. teen with autism hires helping hands for dog-cookie business

Chilliwack adults with developmental disabilities hired to make Tommy’s Choice Dog Cookies

From left, Kyle McMillan, vocational councillor Jodie Dessau, Alec Chelczynski, and Kara-Lyn Loewen with Chilliwack Society for Community Living make Tommy’s Choice Dog Cookies on Feb. 21, 2024. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress)
Glenda Toews, seen here at Corky’s Irish Pub in Chilliwack, wrote Spinning on a Barstool after she was allegedly scammed $60,000 by a con artist. She won silver in the ‘overall grand prize non-fiction’ category of the 2023-2024 Reader Views Literary Awards. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress file)

B.C. author wins silver award for true story about ‘wealthy’ con artist

Glenda Toews picks up international Reader Views Literary Awards for book ‘Spinning on a Barstool’

Glenda Toews, seen here at Corky’s Irish Pub in Chilliwack, wrote Spinning on a Barstool after she was allegedly scammed $60,000 by a con artist. She won silver in the ‘overall grand prize non-fiction’ category of the 2023-2024 Reader Views Literary Awards. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress file)
Chilliwack resident Tammy Jordan witnessed a bobcat in a tree being attacked by a cougar on Feb. 16, 2024. Here, the bobcat is seen a few hundred feet in the air at the very top of a tree. (Tammy Jordan)

PHOTOS: B.C. woman witnesses bobcat attacked by cougar in tree

Fight between 2 wild cats went on for more than hour, says Chilliwack resident Tammy Jordan

Chilliwack resident Tammy Jordan witnessed a bobcat in a tree being attacked by a cougar on Feb. 16, 2024. Here, the bobcat is seen a few hundred feet in the air at the very top of a tree. (Tammy Jordan)
Alina Durham holds a photo of her daughter Shaelene Bell in her home on Jan. 12, 2023. Bell went missing on Jan. 30, 2021 and her body was found on June 2, 2021 in the Fraser River near Coquitlam. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress file)

B.C. MP backs e-petition for missing-adult Amber Alert

Petition, initiated by mother of missing Chilliwack woman, now open on Government of Canada website

Alina Durham holds a photo of her daughter Shaelene Bell in her home on Jan. 12, 2023. Bell went missing on Jan. 30, 2021 and her body was found on June 2, 2021 in the Fraser River near Coquitlam. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress file)
Glenda Toews, seen here at Corky’s Irish Pub in Chilliwack, wrote ‘Spinning on a Barstool’ after she was allegedly scammed $60,000 by a con artist. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress)

A B.C. waitress’s life-changing encounter with ‘wealthy’ con artist

Glenda Toews wrote ‘Spinning on a Barstool’ after losing tens of thousands of dollars in alleged fraud

Glenda Toews, seen here at Corky’s Irish Pub in Chilliwack, wrote ‘Spinning on a Barstool’ after she was allegedly scammed $60,000 by a con artist. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress)
IHIT was called in to Chilliwack on Jan. 3, 2024 after evidence led investigators to believe missing man 41-year-old Jamie Curtis Bristol of Chilliwack had been met with foul play. (IHIT handout)

Convicted B.C. killer missing, foul play suspected: Homicide police

Jamie Curtis Bristol, 41, served time for manslaughter after stabbing cousin

IHIT was called in to Chilliwack on Jan. 3, 2024 after evidence led investigators to believe missing man 41-year-old Jamie Curtis Bristol of Chilliwack had been met with foul play. (IHIT handout)
Chilliwack Fire Department. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress file)

Chilliwack crews called to fire in low-income residence under construction

‘To say we are devastated would be an understatement,’ say Wilma’s Transition Society officials

Chilliwack Fire Department. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress file)
Shane Douglas (left), teacher at Seabird Island Community School, and Isadore Charters stand by the bookshelf that was modified and repainted by Douglas’s class. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress)

Refurbished bookshelf doubles as reconciliation project in Chilliwack

Agassiz students paint Halq’eméylem words with English translations on Rotary bookshelf

Shane Douglas (left), teacher at Seabird Island Community School, and Isadore Charters stand by the bookshelf that was modified and repainted by Douglas’s class. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress)
An officer with the Abbotsford Police Department stops a driver during last year’s campaign on Dec. 3, 2022. This year, nearly 250 officers will be stopping drivers at all Highway 1 exits from the North Shore to Hope. (Photo by Dale Klippenstein)

Impaired-driving checks at all Hwy. 1 exits from North Shore to Hope Dec. 2

Nearly 250 officers will be stopping drivers at 89 impaired-driving check stops along Highway 1

An officer with the Abbotsford Police Department stops a driver during last year’s campaign on Dec. 3, 2022. This year, nearly 250 officers will be stopping drivers at all Highway 1 exits from the North Shore to Hope. (Photo by Dale Klippenstein)
Alina Durham holds a photo of her daughter Shaelene Bell in her home on Jan. 12, 2023. Bell went missing on Jan. 30, 2021 and her body was found on June 2, 2021 in the Fraser River near Coquitlam. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress file)

B.C. MP calls for creation of adult Amber Alert

‘I cried when I watched Mark. I am so grateful that this is being taken seriously,’ says Chilliwack mom

Alina Durham holds a photo of her daughter Shaelene Bell in her home on Jan. 12, 2023. Bell went missing on Jan. 30, 2021 and her body was found on June 2, 2021 in the Fraser River near Coquitlam. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress file)
Rob Forde (right), seen here with Mark Gore and seven-year-old Jack Gore on Oct. 21, 2023, transformed the Gore family’s crawl space into a dungeon. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress)

PHOTOS: Designer builds dungeon in B.C. home in time for Halloween

Rob Forde transformed crawl space corridor into dungeon for Chilliwack homeowners

Rob Forde (right), seen here with Mark Gore and seven-year-old Jack Gore on Oct. 21, 2023, transformed the Gore family’s crawl space into a dungeon. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress)
Josh Tobey, who’s a member of jousting troupe Knights of Valour, is pictured at his Chilliwack home on Sept. 16, 2023. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress)

‘Like driving into a brick wall’: A Chilliwack man’s passion for jousting

Josh Tobey has been suiting up with Knights of Valour for 10 years

Josh Tobey, who’s a member of jousting troupe Knights of Valour, is pictured at his Chilliwack home on Sept. 16, 2023. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress)
Abhay Gadru and Yash Ramugade, both 25 years old, were onboard the small plane with the still-unidentified pilot when it crash landed behind the Chilliwack Motor Inn. (NDTV)

Two men from Mumbai identified as victims of fatal plane crash in Chilliwack

Abhay Gadru and Yash Ramugade identified in crash that killed three people

Abhay Gadru and Yash Ramugade, both 25 years old, were onboard the small plane with the still-unidentified pilot when it crash landed behind the Chilliwack Motor Inn. (NDTV)