While the world has grown accustomed to Abbotsford’s reaction to homeless camps taking the form of police raids, pepper spray and chicken manure, Saturday’s Gladys Road cleanup presented a different…
By Mike Archer. In many ways it was painful to watch. I arrived late to the Abbotsford Community Services (ACS) open house at the Sally Ann’s Cascade Church Wednesday night…
By Mike Archer. Eating crow is something which those of us with strong opinions tend to approach with fear and trepidation lest it interrupt our pontification. I prefer to simply…
By Mike Archer. Why is it that the Abbotsford News seems to feel it has an obligation to make those who are responsible for some of the most atrocious decisions,…
By Mike Archer. The Abbostsford Social Development Advisory Committee (ASDAC) sounds like it ought to be able to achieve important things for a community like Abbotsford with some of the…
By Mike Archer. An email from James Arden, Acting Director, Park Services, for the City of Abbotsford, to City Manager George Murray revealed this week that the Abbotsford Salvation Army…
The Salvation Army has responded to the story published this morning by Abbotsford Today revealing an email from James Arden, Acting Director, Park Services, for the City of Abbotsford, to…
By Mike Archer. City Manager George Murray was quite clear that the City of Abbotsford intends to deal with its most public of embarrassments in decades – the Abbotsford Chicken…
By Mike Archer. The Abbotsford Social Development Advisory Committee (ASDAC) was told Wednesday that the Abbotsford Chicken Manure Homeless Incident which has made headlines around the world was not an…
By AmbrÖse Bierce. Abbotsford Today has learned the Abbotsford Salvation Army threatened to boycott Wednesday’s 10am meeting of the Abbotsford Social Development and Advisory Committee (ASDAC) if the meeting were…