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Officers investigate the crash site on Dewdney Trunk Road near 244th Street.

Cyclist killed in fiery crash on Dewdney 52-year-old woman suspected of drunk driving

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A walk for fish Students from Samuel Robertson Technical School walk along 104th Avenue, towards 240th Street, Thursday morning to show their concern about changes to the federal Fisheries Act. See story, p8.

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Daycare has licence suspended Man charged with sexual assault against young girl breaches plan

by M o n i s h a M a r t i n s staff reporter

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Dragonfly Daycare on Creekside Street will be forced to shut down on May 28.

A daycare run out of a Maple Ridge house owned by a man accused of molesting a young girl has had its licence suspended.

The Fraser Health Authority confirmed that Dragonfly Daycare will shut down May 28 because Edgar Hernandez, who was prohibited from being in the house while children are being cared for, was seen on the property last Friday.

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Hernandez, 48, faces one count each of sexual interference and sexual assault in connection with an offence that took place around Dec. 1, 2009.

Police allege Hernandez touched a young girl inappropriately at Dragonfly Daycare, operated out of his Creekside Street home.

Hernandez’s wife Flavia is listed as the manager of the daycare, which is licensed to care for up to seven children.

Fraser Health put a health and safety plan in place after learning about the allegations against Hernandez and banned him from being at the daycare during its hours of operation.

On Friday, however, Fraser Health was notified of a breach.

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A cyclist was killed early Thursday in Maple Ridge after he was hit by an alleged drunk driver.

The fatal accident took place around 3 a.m. and was discovered by a Ridge Meadows RCMP who was tailing a white Kia Sportage, which he had just spotted speeding near the 23200-block of Dewdney Trunk Road.

The officer was about to stop the Kia when the driver lost control of the car and crashed near 244th Street.

The SUV burst into flames following the crash, but the Mountie quickly put out the fire with an extinguisher from his police cruiser. He then dragged the driver, a 52-year-old woman, from the vehicle.

The officer then realized the SUV has struck a cyclist who was riding east.

The cyclist was thrown several feet into a wooded area near the shoulder of the road. He died at the scene.

“This is a very unfortunate and sad case,” said Insp. Dave Fluegel.

“The officer did not engage in a pursuit. At the time, the suspect was still a considerable distance away from our officer. Evidence suggests that she lost control of her vehicle and crashed just off the travelled portion of the roadway,” he added.

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Life skills program thrown lifeline Pathfinder program gets federal funding

by Phi l M elnyc h u k staff reporter

by M o n i s h a M a r t i n s staff reporter

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ome people may dream about a holiday in Hawaii, maybe the Caribbean.

Not Vashon Omeasoo.

It’s the northern half of the Korean peninsula that intrigues him, North Korea, the country whose Stalinist isolation has almost made it a place that time forgot.

“I’m extremely interested in the fact that we don’t know much about that country. The one forbidden country in the world.”

One day, he says, he’d like to save up and visit, adding he’s seen guided tours advertised online.

Omeasoo, 19, is one of the dozen kids enrolled in the working together program offered by the Pathfinder Youth Centre Society building on Stewart Crescent in Maple Meadows Business Park.

It’s a six-month program designed to help youth aged 15 to 30 figure out what they want to do with their lives.

By tackling team projects, learning communication skills, and taking job-specific courses such as FoodSafe, Serving it Right, first aid, Worldhost, courses, students get a chance to figure out who they are and where they fit in the big world.

With some life skills figured out, the skills needed to find and keep a job fall more easily into place.

Shadowing people who do what they think are dream jobs is another way of getting a dose of reality that can lead to realistic job choices.

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Through the working together program, Vashon Omeasoo has determined that he wants to one day visit North Korea, while it has helped Lia Beaudoin become more social.

“We’re just so grateful now because we have a wait list of 100 kids.”

Ruth Lee, Pathfinder executive-director

For Omeasoo, the program has allowed him to figure out his immediate future. It’s given him “the spark to find the will to go to SFU.” Until he joined the program, he had trouble finding work and had no motivation to do anything.

Now, he’s heading into a pre-admission program at SFU that will lead to studies in the health-care field, either in pharmacy or addic-

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“I used to isolate myself and keep away from people and this has helped me reconnect with what I’ve lost.”

He figures his classmates will become lifelong friends.

“I’m glad I’m in this program.

I’m quite happy with it. Things are changing.”

Omeasoo and his classmates, at least, will be able to finish the sixmonth course thanks to $410,000 from the federal government’s Skills Link program, part of the Youth Employment Strategy.

The money was announced Wednesday by Maple Ridge MP Randy Kamp.

The money, though, will last only a year, for two intakes of a dozen kids each, after which administrators again will have to apply again to keep the program alive.

Pathfinder executive-director Ruth Lee says the society has been operating for eight years, with two other programs in Surrey.

It’s funded 95 per cent by the federal Human Resources and Skills Development ministry and relies on Vancity credit union for most of

the rest.

But federal government cuts have hurt such efforts and eliminated one of the Surrey programs.

In March, Pathfinder closed down for two weeks because it ran out of money.

“We’re just so grateful now because we have a wait list of 100 kids,” Lee said.

Administrative manager Alana Jackson said the program helps people believe in themselves. “If you don’t have self-confidence, you don’t think you can do anything.”

To get accepted, students, who can come from any background or educational level, have to go through four interviews.

If they show up for those, it’s a good sign they’re serious about the program. Applicants must also have some barrier to getting a job, such as poverty, maybe dyslexia, lack of self-confidence, mental health, or addiction issues, or being raised in such an environment.

For Lia Beaudoin, 24, and a mom of two, the program’s first few weeks have already helped.

She used to work at a lot of physical, short-term jobs.

“It’s definitely a good start when you don’t know where you’re going.

“I came out of my shell more.

Usually, I’m a pretty shy person.

I’m more willing to talk now.”

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The City of Pitt Meadows is set to adopt a policy that will guide public consultations for new cellphone tower locations.

Although the city doesn’t have much of a say on where the often-contentious towers are located, councillors hope new guidelines will keep residents well-informed when one’s set to go up in their neighbourhood and perhaps influence the design of the structure, as well as its location.

“We had a few towers that we dealt with last year and because we didn’t have a policy on consultation, they followed the Industry Canada default process,” said city director of operations Kim Grout.

“The advertisements could have been a bit more obvious in the paper. And in a rural area, you probably needed to inform a broader area.”

The policy, set to be adopted Tuesday, will require wireless carriers such as Telus and Bell to follow a process similar to one which notifies residents about public hearings.

Proponents must ensure that at least 30 days are provided for public consultation.

Those proposing structures higher than 15 meters within an urban area will have to hold a public information meeting.

The minimum size of an advertising for cell towers should be three-by-seven inches.

The proposed notification radiuses are: 122 meters (400 feet), or three times the height of the proposed tower, whichever is greater, in urban areas, and 488 meters (1,601 feet) in agricultural and rural areas.

The city will also charge proponents a $1,700 permit processing fee.

If possible, the city also suggests carriers “co-locate” towers and camouflage them.

“The policy won’t stop residents from getting upset,” said Grout.

“But it will be an opportunity for them to get engage with the carrier and Industry Canada.”

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Jessie Russell plans to attend SFU

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hen Garibaldi teacher Susan Beyer read the criteria for the prestigious Schulich Leader Scholarship, she couldn’t help but think how uncannily it described Grade 12 student Jessie Russell.

Russell, a student in Garibaldi’s International Baccalaureate program, is well known to the faculty there – for all the right reasons.

“I’m one of those really annoying students who goes and talks to teachers for hours after class,” Russell admits.

She’s also one of the school’s top students, and involved in everything from cross country and track to the school’s drama program. She’s also been involved in a variety of social causes at the school, and in the past five years, has been instrumental in helping to raise $10,000 to build a school in Sierra Leone. Russell went so far as to help pen a play raising awareness about the plight of children in West Africa that was performed at the school.

She says that process

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Garibaldi teacher Sue Beyer with Schulich Leader Scholarship recipient Jessie Russell. was just as much about bringing the issue of child poverty home and making it relevant, as it was to encourage her fellow classmates to be empowered, and feel they can make a difference no matter what their cause.

“They made a difference, and that makes

them feel valued,” Russell said.

So it was no surprise that when Beyer saw the Schulich scholarship criteria, Russell immediately came to mind.

“They wanted someone who wasn’t just academically strong, but a leader too, and someone

can’t quite comprehend it.”

The lucrative scholarship will mean Russell won’t have to pay a dime for her university education, and gives her the option of living on campus while she studies.

She plans to study applied biology through SFU’s Faculty of Environment, with an eye on a graduate certificate in sustainable community development and, perhaps, law school.

“I wanted to work with animals from a very young age, and from there I became interested in ecology... and how economics is related to the environment,” Russell said.

With her high school career now almost over, she says she’s thankful for the close-knit community of teachers and students at Garibaldi.

And in typically modest fashion, Russell doesn’t see her accomplishment as being any more significant than the work put in by her peers, not only the many who will be graduating with her this June, but those who aren’t, as well.

“Everyone has a different reason for it being difficult,” she says. “We value so much when someone gets a scholarship, but everyone should be celebrated for all the hard work they did.”

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In all, 40 such scholarships are expected to be awarded this year.

“There’s a lot of competition,” said Beyer.

“This is not an easy scholarship to get.”

The scholarship program is funded by a $100 million endowment from Canadian businessman and investor Seymour Schulich.

At Beyer’s insistence, Russell applied, and won a $60,000 scholarship towards her education at Simon Fraser University.

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Daycare to remain open so parents can make arrangements Daycare from front Roy Thorpe-Dorward of Fraser Health said licensing officers started an investigation on Tuesday after the Victoria Day long weekend and confirmed that Hernandez has been on the site while children were present.

The daycare’s licence won’t be suspended until Monday, though, to give parents a few days to make arrangements for their children to be cared for elsewhere.

Thorpe-Dorward said Fraser Health will conduct unannounced daily inspections while Dragonfly remains open.

As well, someone who is not a family member must remain on site to ensure the operator is complying with the restrictions.

“Our focus is ensuring the health and safety of the children in care,” said Thorpe-Dorward. “When we have an operator sign off on a plan and we take that as a serious commitment. When there is a breach, we take further actions to be confident

to ensure the health and safety of the kids in care.”

Hernandez has been released on bail with conditions that include no contact with the alleged victim and her family.

“Our focus is ensuring the health and safety of the children in care.”

Ray Thorpe-Dorward, Fraser Health

He was also required to surrender his passport, must remain in B.C., is prohibited from working or volunteering with females under 16, and is prohibited from being in parks, swimming pools, schools, daycares or other areas where children maybe present.

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• A photo with the story “A quarter century in motion,” which ran in the May 18 edition of The News, incorrectly identified the boy shaking hands with Rick Hansen. The boy is actually Cameron Campbell. We apologize for the error.

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Strategy for food Canada was criticized last week by a United Nations representative for not having a national food strategy.

The criticism was brushed aside by the federal government, but it’s hard to ignore that almost 2.5 million Canadians aren’t getting the nutrition they need.

That’s an unacceptable number.

And a national strategy would go a long way in not only providing funding to ensure healthy food is obtainable for all, but to reconnect people and communities with their food sources.

An important part of this strategy would be education, including better food labelling so families can make healthier choices, and improved information on where our food comes from.

Part of this reconnection should include breaking down massive industrial farms to sizes more accessible for the average person – let’s face it, we have no idea where much of the food we eat today comes from or how it is produced.

Other parts of a strategy could include a national template for communities to follow on what is acceptable in urban areas for growing and improved protection for designated agricultural land reserves.

To address food security, one also has to consider poverty. Canada doesn’t have a national strategy for that, either.

So it’s no surprise that since 1981, when the first food bank in Canada opened in Edmonton, more than 700 have opened. And while food banks perform an admirable service, they are a symptom of, not a solution to, the growing problem.

Access to proper nutrition would not only help ease the nation’s hunger pangs, it would enable children to focus better in school and reduce health costs.

To dismiss the importance of a national food strategy is irresponsible.

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last wrote about the shameful food situation In Nunavut. There are a number of things that need to be changed simultaneously if we want to see any permanent improvement.

If you would walk into any of the two Health Care supermarkets in Marco Terwiel Rankin Inlet, you would gasp, not only because of the prices for the staples there, but also the selection. For some reason or another the price of junk-food, chips, pop and cookies is only slightly higher than the prices in our local grocery stores.

But it is quite a different story when buying fresh or frozen fruits and vegetables. For instance, three pounds of oranges will cost you $9.89 in Rankin Inlet compared to $1.99 in Toronto. A plastic jar of cranberry juice will set you back $10.49 and orange peppers are $12.59 a pound.

It therefore does not come as a surprise the area devoted to the healthy fresh food is quite small in sharp contrast to the large section with shelves full of somewhat less expensive processed food and an abundance of cheap junk food.

Even if you want to prepare a simple spaghetti dinner for four consisting of pasta, ground beef and tomato sauce, you pay $19.89 for the ingredients. In the

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south, you pay $7.43 for the same.

One of the compounding problems is that many do not even know how to prepare a dinner like that and have to rely completely canned or on store-bought prepared meals to be warmed up in a microwave oven.

Despite the widespread poverty, many house-holds do have a microwave oven, but that really is no surprise because without one they could not even eat the processed meals.

There is a Federal Food Mail program meant to subsidize the price of transport for food bought in the south and airmailed to the recipients. Recently that program has been totally overhauled, and from what I gather, not for the better, making access to fresh and healthy food more complicated.

Close to half the population has an income far below the standard Canadian poverty level and receives some form of social assistance.

When the food prices are, in general, two or three times higher than in the south of our country, the result is that there are a lot of poorly nourished and really hungry people.

There are no food banks like we have in the Lower Mainland.

However, there is fortunately still a sense of community, and when a hunter goes out and is lucky to shoot a caribou, seal or walrus, the meat gets shared with those in need.

I have noticed the situation gets worse the last week to 10 days before the next welfare cheques arrive. One of the

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reasons for that is the lack of budgeting skills. Many adults will buy cigarettes at $18 a pack, smoke a pack a day, and when the money runs out, there is no food in the house. That sad situation applies to up to 30 per cent of the homes, and the children are sent off to school without breakfast. Thankfully, there is a breakfast program in most settlements and the food is reasonably nutritious, but still the situation is far from ideal when there is nothing to eat the rest of the day.

Less than 100 years ago, food security involved a diet of traditional food sources, which were high in nutritional value, such as fish, seal, caribou, musk ox, whale and walrus. People really did not have to rely on an income other than to buy some hunting and fishing gear and some staples.

At that time, quality and quantity were never an issue. However, today the rapidly increasing population and very noticeable climate changes, combined with the loss of many of their traditional survival skills have resulted in a desperate situation for many.

Add to that the social ills of irresponsible gambling in the form of TV bingo and abuse of alcohol among all too many Inuit and a bad situation gets even worse.

Next time I will suggest a number of possible approaches to remedy this unacceptable condition among our fellow Canadians.

Dr. Marco Terwiel is a retired family physician who lives in Maple Ridge.

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THE NEWS/letters Ad offended youth, think again EDITOR, THE NEWS:

Re: Ad seriously crossed the line of decency (Letters, May 23).

When reading The News (May 18), I saw the ad for the Caddy Shack of a woman pulling down her panties, or then again maybe she is pulling them up, and I predicted someone would complain about it.

Sure enough, as predicted, someone did. Leah Pillet, “not a prude,” complained that this ad was not appropriate for a “family community paper” and “it does not need to be so blatantly shown” in case some youth may be reading the paper.

Welcome to the 21st Century. Do you really think this ad is going to corrupt the minds of today’s youth or perhaps offend them or teach them something they don’t already know?

Give them some credit as to their daily surroundings – they are exposed far more to sexuality by the average television show today.

Also, how many youth really even pick up any paper today, to read?

Most youth today, read, converse, and exchange ideas through electronic devices.

I am not trying to diminish that the ad was not explicit, but to offend today’s youth, think again.

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online comments Mr. H ‘one of a kind’ • Evan Nevatie · Works at Omnitech Services Ltd.: Re: Garibaldi secondary mourning loss of ‘Mr. H’ (mapleridgenews.com).

This article says he had no children of his own, but yet I feel he had so, so many that he helped flourish.

• David Goode · Preston, Victoria, Australia: That’s too bad. He was probably the best teacher at GSS. • Nikki Banks · Maple Ridge, British Columbia: He was a wonderful man. He’ll be missed in the school.

• Sacha Oddstad · Return to Work Specialist at Canadian Pacific Railway: You had a positive impact on so many lives. Your spirit will live on.

• Sammy Irwin · Garibaldi Secondary School: Rest in peace Mr. H, you were my favorite teacher throughout those long 5 years and I couldn’t have imagined having a better social studies and geography teacher. You were so thoughtful and easy to talk to, I know you will be well taken care of and we will never stop thinking about you.

• Haruo Chikamori: Not only just his students, but to everyone in the school. Always ready to raise a hand in greeting. I remember walking down the halls at Garibaldi and he always greeted me in the morning with, “Good morning, Hugo.” My thoughts go out to his family and to all those whose hearts he touched.

He definitely did, including mine. RIP, Mr. H. You were one of a kind.

• Kyla McCorkindale: RIP, Mr. H. You will be missed, not just in GSS, but in the whole community. One of the best teachers in the school who wasn’t afraid to tell a joke and discuss almost anything. My thoughts go out to everyone. Bless it be.

• Jennifer Hennessey · Vancouver, British Columbia: A great article! Glad to see Mr. H honored. He really was loved ... an allaround great man.

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Make wise decision in Albion EDITOR, THE NEWS:

I am writing to express my concerns about the proposed development at the corner of 244th Street and 102nd Avenue in Albion.

I am mostly concerned about the proposed changes to not only the OCP, but also the Urban Boundary, as well as the Albion Area Plan.

All this to accommodate one developer.

Why? We, the community, fought long and hard, and I personally, through petition, collected more than 3,000 signatures from voters to save the Jackson lands and have the farm become a park in its natural state.

We did not go to all this effort to have some absentee landlord who purchased the property as farmland, at farmland prices, knowing full well it was zoned agricultural, only to curry council favor at this later date to change the designation so to profit on it.

The owner should either sell it as farmland if he no longer wants it and let someone else use it for agriculture, like a hobby farm, or for vegetables, or just as a

beautiful piece of property to live on.

This property is surrounded on three sides by parkland, as it is, with 244th Street being the dividing line between the current development and the farm.

I also understand council is considering allowing this developer to use approximately one to 1.5 acres of the Jackson lands to address drainage issues on his three acres.

The wildlife, the wetlands on the farm and the natural topography will be disturbed forever to accommodate drainage for this development.

Manmade wetlands and replanted areas can never duplicate nature as it already exists.

We are nothing but arrogant to think we can. Any runoff from this development will be directed into Jackson Creek. This includes any chemicals from car washing, fertilizing of plants, and dumping of household chemicals in the sewers.

What impact is this going to have on the wildlife inhabiting this creek?

From the plans I have seen, the amount of land from the farm needed for this

drainage issue is approximately one to 1.5 acres. This is no small amount.

If the owner needs to drain his land, he should have to do it within the three acres like any of the rest of us would have to.

This sets a dangerous precedent for any other landowner or developer who owns land alongside a park or a green space to be allowed the same privilege of using park land to drain their property so they can maximize the use of their land.

Do you really want to take this road? I hope not.

People have long memories when it comes to what is perceived as favoritism towards landowners and developers at the expense of the public.

Albion has an abundance of these landowners and developers who purchased cheap lowlands in the ALR and now are waiting to profit. We need to send them a clear message of protection for our future.

It is up to our elected representatives to help us protect the environment and wildlife by making wise decisions.

RUTH PARE MAPLE RIDGE

Go back to drawing board on omnibus budget bill EDITOR, THE NEWS:

The federal government’s 452-page omnibus budget bill contains too much for adequate consideration by Parliament, because it is really more than budget-implementation legislation.

Only some portions of it are about public finance, that is, about such matters as income tax, sales tax and federal-provincial fiscal arrangements.

Paul Martin was prime minister in

2005, and his budget bill was 120 pages long, a record at the time.

The opposition leader, Stephen Harper, quite properly asked: “How can members represent their constituents on these various areas when they are forced to vote on a block of such legislation?”

How is this omnibus “budget” bill any different than the one that he questioned in 2005?

It was wrong then, and it is wrong now.

Please go back to the drawing board and come back with a proper budget bill, only.

The rest can be dealt with later in an appropriate forum.

Canadians are watching and we are not amused.

Strange artifacts linger in the lexicon

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away, but I still hile chathear “once in a ting with blue moon.” someone Now I don’t know the other day, I used about you, but I’ve the expression, never seen a blue “The world is your moon. Not ever. In oyster.” fact, I don’t think I stopped and that’s even posthought: What sible. the heck does that So how can mean? there be a “once” For that matter, if there’s no such why would anyone Commentary thing? compare a shellfish Andrew Holota Wouldn’t that be to being in control “never in a blue of one’s destiny? moon?”

Why not a turnip, or a No less confusing is “over can of sliced peaches? the moon.” Now, I underI mean, is “The world stand being delighted, is your Dungeness crab” or ecstatic, but how that any less ridiculous than relates to a voyage into oysters? space just beats me. And Who comes up with this actually, that should be stuff? around the moon, as any Maybe an oyster farmer? astronaut who has done so Is he the same guy who can tell you. coined “happy as a clam?”

More nonsensical though How could he tell? is “pie in the sky,” which is Buried in wet sand your used to describe unrealistic entire existence ... what’s thinking. Apparently, it happy about that? hasn’t occurred to anyone As you can tell, it got me that the expression itself is to thinking about other pretty out there ... silly phrases that have “Burning the midnight made their way into the oil” is another ancient English language. saying that still crops up in Some of them have faded

conversation.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe the invention of the electric light bulb and electrical power grids pretty much replaced oil lamps about oh, a century ago, give or take a few decades. But there’s that old expression, still being used to express working late.

Same with “fighting hammer and tongs.”

Violent confrontation is still pretty much in vogue these days, but with hammer and tongs? Aren’t those blacksmithing tools?

Who do you know who even has a pair of tongs, other than perhaps the stainless steel kitchen version?

Back off, Jack, or you’ll feel the bite of my rubberized vegetable servers!

Oooh, there’s a threat!

“Raining cats and dogs” is still oft heard, and it’s just plain weird.

Somehow, somewhere, someone decided to equate falling droplets of water with plummeting pets.

Clearly, this person was drunk as a skunk.

And where skunks get

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liquor, I can’t imagine.

Wouldn’t they be asked for ID? You’d think someone else would have immediately challenged the cat/dog precipitation comparison.

“Dude, you’re out of your mind. Shut up. It’s just raining really hard, OK?” But no, apparently no one thought to question the insanity of this remark. We just continued to parrot it to this day.

And speaking of days, the more contemporary expression “at the end of the day,” makes me crazy.

What does that actually mean?

Nothing, really, but it’s absolutely ubiquitous.

Corporate policies, projects, objectives and all sorts of miscellaneous proclamations and observations are based upon this vague point in the Earth’s rotational cycle.

At the end of the day, some day soon, I’d like to see this phrase go away. All day, every day.

In the meantime, I’ll just keep on keeping on.

If you know what I mean.

Andrew Holota is editor of the Abbotsford News, a Black Press affiliate.

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Students protest to protect fish habitat New legislative changes remove ‘habitat’ from Fisheries Act

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About 150 Grade 8 students at Samuel Robertson Technical School checked out their usual stomping grounds Thursday, and made a point at the same time.

Protect fish habitat.

The five classes were on an awareness walk in response to changes to the federal Fisheries Act, but also checked out an ongoing stream project.

A control gate on Maggie Creek which flows into Kanaka Creek at 240th Street, helps maintain water levels in the wetlands area upstream, and creates more sheltered habitat away from the main stream.

The project was part of the habitat improvement required when the 240th Street bridge was built a few years ago.

That’s since improved Maggie Creek, confirmed by the presence of a few coho, stickleback and snapper found in the trap during the tour.

Only a few students however commented on Ottawa’s changes to the Fisheries Act

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A student from Samuel Robertson holds up fish caught in a trap during the tour on Thursday in Maple Ridge. now underway which will remove protection of habitat from all streams and just focus on streams of commercial, recreational or aboriginal value.

The phrase ‘harmful alteration, disruption destruction” of fish habitat in general is gone, while the new legislation says no one can cause “serious harm” to native, recreational or commercial fisheries.

Leigh Vivier was one of the few students carrying a Walk for Habitat sign and said he wants to make a difference.

“I want to help save Kanaka

Creek – fish, animals and wildlife is at stake.”

He said the trap set in the creek showed that salmon are using Maggie Creek for habitat to stay safe from predators.

“And the number one predator is humans.”

Jade Plul and Alivia Stockall were also aware of the issue.

“We don’t want the fish to go extinct,” said Plul. “We want to save the fish,” added Stockall.

Senior biology teacher at Samuel Robertson Steve Halfnights said the exercise was an “awareness walk” and that

many students probably have other concerns.

“For us, we just have to plant the seed and let the students make their choices down the road.”

Ross Davies, with the Kanaka Education and Environmental Partnership Society organized the walk. He helps teach Grade 8 science courses at Samuel Robertson.

He said the changes to the Fisheries Act could threaten the small tributary streams which could be considered neither recreational, commercial or aboriginal fishery.

“In our opinion, it (defining a stream that can be protected) becomes much more subjective.” Under the existing Fisheries Act, protection is automatic, he explained.

The new legislation removes the requirement to get authorization for disruption of any kind of fish habitat. That’s only required for waters that connected to recreational, commercial or aboriginal fisheries.

According to the government, authorization will not be required for projects occurring in waters that do not support the recreational, commercial or Aboriginal fisheries. New tools will be available to manage smaller impacts to recreational, commercial and Aboriginal fisheries.

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Hospital Fund Run a family affair

by R o b e r t M a n g e l s d o r f staff reporter

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or the past nine years, every June, Maple Ridge’s Doris Jenkins straps on her running shoes and joins the hundreds-strong throng at the Ridge Meadows Hospital Foundation’s annual Fund Run. And by her side, every step of the way, is her granddaughter Lauren.

For these two, taking part in the event is a way to show their support for their local hospital, something Doris says Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows residents shouldn’t take for granted. “We’re lucky to have it here, it’s a great little hospital,� says Doris. “It’s important to do things for your own community like this, and help in any way you can.�

Doris’s husband Ivor was a patient at Ridge Meadows Hospital, where he underwent knee surgery, and was a resident of the adjacent residential care home, Baillie House, before he passed away two years ago.

Doris says she’s grateful for the care he received at Ridge Meadows Hospital, and will be walking in his memory. “We’re very thankful for the care he got there,� she says.

Nine years ago, Doris, now

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Lauren Jenkins, 13, and grandmother Doris Jenkins, 77, will be taking part in the ninth annual Ridge Meadows Hospital Foundation Fund Run together on Sunday, June 3.

77, did the five-km walk with Lauren’s older sister, Megan.

But for the past seven years, Lauren has been by her side. “I don’t even remember the first time I did it, it’s just something we’ve always done together,� says Lauren, a Grade 8 student at Maple Ridge Secondary School.

This year Lauren plans to run the course, and says she’s looking forward to annual on

June 3. “It’s fun and it’s healthy and everyone is happy and having a good time,� she says.

The Fund Run itself is organized by the Ridge Meadows Hospital Foundation, which raises money for equipment, education and research at the hospital. With government funding in short supply, staff at the hospital have come to rely on the foundation to provide things like colonoscopes, cardio monitors, surgical equipment, blood analyzers, and much more.

The Ridge Meadows Hospital Foundation collected more than $800,000 in donations last year. Thanks to that kind of community generosity, the hospital has been able to expand significantly in the past five years, adding a new emergency ward, ambulatory care ward, and psychiatric ward.

This year’s Fund Run takes place Sunday, June 3, with a five-km walk/run and a 10-km run, as well as a kids’ run, which is new this year.

Last year’s event drew more than 300 participants, and help ed raise more than $30,000 for the hospital.

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Invitation to Tender

Friends of Jackson Farm don’t like the developer’s idea

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by Phil Mel nyc hu k staff reporter Stuart Pledge accepts that a three-acre chunk of land next to the northwest corner of Jackson Farm park will have 30 homes built on it. But he doesn’t like the idea of using public land next to it for storm water management and as a conservation area.

The public hasn’t even had its say on how Jackson farm will look when it’s turned into a park, he adds.

Maple Ridge acquired the lower part of the old Jackson Farm on 102nd Avenue and 244th Street in 2010-2011 from the owner, mainly the Redmond family, in return for allowing housing on the upper portion on 248th Street. “There’s no determination yet exactly how that landscape [in lower Jackson Farm] will be used,� Pledge said.

He was part of the Friends of Jackson Farm group which campaigned a few years ago to save the historic farm and its rolling landscape, which was slated for development.

The current application, from a different owner, Michael McBride, is for rezoning to allow for 30 homes.

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Maple Ridge acquired the lower part of the old Jackson Farm on 102nd Avenue and 244th Street in 2010-2011 . are required for developments. But a map included with the application shows the conservation area, with tall conifers, in what will be the future Jackson farm park. “Which is a radical departure from what is there now.�

Such a plan values conservation but not the heritage value and the open spaces of the old farm, he pointed out.

Council sent the application to public hearing on Tuesday.

Pledge even wonders if council is aware of that part of the proposal.

According to a staff report, the conservation area will direct water from Jackson farm to Jackson Creek, rather than across the development site during heavy rains, and

will re-establish a natural drainage area. The area, in the northwest corner of Jackson farm also will have several native tree species planted.

But Pledge says parkland should not be used to buffer the development. “If this was privately owned property, there wouldn’t be any changes made to the property, so why are they doing it to publicly owned land?� Pledge asked. “The district is giving them a free ride. It’s a gift from the public to the developer when they do this.�

However, planning director Christine Carter pointed out the developer is doing the work to divert water from the municipality’s Jackson farm property that would ow on to the housing site. Usu-

ally, that water would be captured from a pipe and the district would have to manage the water.

Instead, the developer’s proposal will manage that storm water and in the process create a treed area surrounding the stream, which would usually only ow during the rainy season. “The way we look at it, it’s creating a real nice feature in what will be a park,â€? Carter said.

Developers do work on adjacent properties from time to time, she added.

Mayor Ernie Daykin pointed out the proposal still needs third reading after public hearing. “My mind is not made up.�

But he pointed out the property has long been separated from Jackson farm.

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Pitt Meadows inks contract with RCMP

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Council still waiting to hear about costs The District of Maple Ridge is seeking a community member to fill a vacancy on the Maple Ridge Public Art Steering Committee. Successful candidates will have a strong interest in the visual arts with some knowledge of practice and procedures in public art projects. The following volunteer position is available:

by M o n i s h a M a r t i n s staff reporter Pitt Meadows has inked a new deal with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police that will keep the force in the city for another 20 years.

After holding off on signing the contract until more details were available, council held a special meeting on Tuesday to ratify it before the May 31 deadline.

While Surrey – the biggest detachment in Canada – has already signed, many other municipalities held off after it was revealed newly approved pay hikes for Mounties go beyond what the federal government had forewarned cities last year.

There are also concerns about more than the pay hikes, which give the RCMP an extra 5.25 per cent over three years.

One issue involves an interpretation document that is to accompany the actual contract and would guide how it is interpreted.

Other concerns include severance pay requirements for cities and who is bearing the capital costs of the RCMP’s new E Division headquarters at Green Timbers in Surrey.

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Both Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge have signed a new contract with the RCMP. nance Dean Rear said the questions council has have not yet been answered, but he has committed to return with an update when more details about the actual costs of the contract are available.

As of May 2 – 32 of 62 municipalities who use the RCMP services in B.C. have approved the contract.

Maple Ridge was one of the first to ratify the new deal.

Housing stock Pitt Meadows will hire a consultant to take stock of the kind of housing in the city.

The consultant will mainly focus on how much affordable housing is available and what needs to be built to meet growing demands.

City director of operations Kim Grout said it’s a gap analysis because the city has never taken to done a

survey of its housing stock before.

The plan will help the city figure out what it needs to do to encourage the development of affordable housing, added Grout.

Metro Vancouver’s regional growth strategy estimates future housing demand in Pitt Meadows for 1,600 units – 1,000 of those being owned while 600 being rental units.

Of the rental units, 400 will need to be “affordable” to accommodate low and moderateincome households.

Bike study The City of Pitt Meadows is developing a pedestrian and cycling master plan and wants your input.

The plan will guide the city’s investments into programs and infrastructure that will encourage people to walk and cycle for

work, school and leisure. The city has set aside $35,000 to complete the plan.

While Pitt Meadows is already considered very pedestrian and bicycle friendly, the majority of daily trips in the city are still made by car.

The benefits of walking and cycling include improved physical activity and public health, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, less traffic congestion, cleaner air and more livable neighbourhoods.

The city will host several public events, distributing surveys and meet with groups in the next few months.

• You too can have your say online at pittmeadows.bc.ca or contact Ike De Boer at 604-465-2425 or ideboer@pittmeadows. bc.ca to join a stakeholder steering group

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To indicate an interest in being considered for the Committee, applicants should forward a letter to the undersigned by June 8, 2012. Letters should include an indication of why the candidate wishes to serve along with their professional and community involvement background. A copy of the By-law is available by contacting our office or the website at: http://www.mapleridge. ca/assets/Default/Mayor~and~Council/pdfs/Bylaws~and~Regulations/ bylaw_6659-2009.pdf An on-line application form is available on the web at: http://www.mapleridge.ca/EN/main/municipal/728/committees.asp For further information please contact Shelley Jorde, Recreation Manager, Community Connections at 604-467-7415 or sjorde@mapleridge.ca.

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Public Notice Public Open House for Proposed Albion Area Plan Amendments The District of Maple Ridge is undertaking a density review of the northern portion of the Albion Area Plan. This review will apply to the lands with future development potential identified in the map below and will involve consideration and discussion of the following: • Inserting new residential zones permitting smaller single-family lot sizes • Removing existing density transfer policies You are invited to participate in the open house scheduled for: Date: Wednesday, May 30th Time: Drop-in anytime between 5:00 and 8:00 p.m.

Location: Samuel Robertson Technical School – Library 10445 – 245th Street, Maple Ridge Please visit the Maple Ridge website at www.mapleridge.ca for updates on this review process.

This notice is issued in accordance with Sections 94 and 24 (1) (d) of the Community Charter.

Council of the Corporation of the District of Maple Ridge intends to enter into a “partnering agreement” with WILDPLAY MAPLE RIDGE (Maple Ridge Excursions Limited) for the purposes of providing WILDPLAY with land for a tree top adventure course located at 236th Street/Fern Crescent, Maple Ridge.

If you have any questions, please email planning@mapleridge.ca or call 604-467-7341.

Under the terms of the “Partnering Agreement” the District of Maple Ridge intends to provide the land for $16,000 each year for a period of 2 years, after which time the license to occupy rate will resume at $32,000 per year, recognizing the community and tourism benefits that this facility brings to Maple Ridge.

Any enquiries may be directed to: David Boag Director of Parks & Facilities Corporation of the District of Maple Ridge 11995 Haney Place, Maple Ridge, B.C. V2X 6A9 Phone: (604) 467-7344 E-mail: dboag@mapleridge.ca Dated this 17th day of May, 2012

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Addicted to crystal meth and mentally ill, she was a frequent subject of 911 calls.

Mounties at the Ridge Meadows RCMP detachment knew her as the girl who had given birth to a baby in the bushes.

“A bunch of us had tried to help several times,” says Thompson.

Police would intervene, take her to hospital or a treatment centre, but the girl would always run away.

“She wasn’t committing any criminal acts, but she was always yelling, walking around the streets at night,” says Thompson, a designated mental health liaison who has been working with the Fraser Health Authority and other community partners for

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Fraser Health director of clinical programs Sherry Mumford and Ridge Meadows RCMP Insp. Dave Walsh sign the mental health agreement at the Randy Herman building. two and half years.

Thompson’s job is one that police officers across Canada are familiar with. Police are, by default, becoming the informal first responders of the mental health system, and often play such a role without the necessary resources or support to carry it out properly.

The B.C. Early Intervention Study found individuals who seek help voluntarily from emergency wards are often deemed not sick enough to qualify for limited acute care resources.

The same study found that more than 30 per cent of people with seri-

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These people often tie up scant police resources and force officers to take on the role of social worker.

“Sometimes we have multiple calls from the same person. It’s those calls we want to reduce by working with our community partners,” said Cpl. Alanna Dunlop, explaining why the Ridge Meadows RCMP began tracking calls involving mental health issues and started to work with addictions and health care profes-

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The skinny, toothless addict who Thompson vividly remembers is one of their success stories.

Two years after RCMP and staff from the Maple Ridge mental health unit first came in contact with her, the girl is off the street. She has a full set of teeth and both her children back.

“You see her walking down the street, pushing her kids in a stroller, you wouldn’t even recognize her,” says Thompson.

Thompson’s role now involves identifying individuals with mental health issues and entering information into the police database that helps front line officers.

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That includes information on what might trigger the individual to act out, the drugs they use or even something as simple as a phone number of a family member an officer can contact for help.

“If the front-line officers know that, it improves our response, as well as our dealings with that person and the end result, which is getting them healthy so we don’t have repeat calls for service,” said Dunlop.

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“We have people with mental health problems who never come out of their house. We’ve had people who’ve had 20 police files, but no police officer has seen them. To get them hooked up with programs is great,” said Thompson, whose case load can fluctuate from 30 to 10 files.

“Police have a role in addressing mental health in the community.”

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Earlier this month, Ridge Meadows RCMP and Fraser Health signed a formal agreement that outlines their roles and responsibilities when it comes to dealing with people suffering from a mental illness.

In the past, the mental health unit in Maple Ridge wouldn’t

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Const. Cara Thompson works at her desk at the Ridge Meadows RCMP detachment. She is a mental health liaison for the detachment. know if a client has had repeated contact with police. Now, officers and trained health care professionals met regularly to brainstorm how best to help them.

“Fraser Health is committed to quality care and we feel we can do a better job if we are all working in tandem with other partners,” said Ken McDonald, who manages Fraser Health’s mental health unit in Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows.

“Our ultimate goal is to provide quality care to people when they are asking for it.

Police have a role in addressing mental health in the community and we can assist them with that by educating them about mental health disorders and substance use issues. As with anything in health care, our ultimate goal is for people to live healthier lives and make healthier choices and get more out of their quality of life.”

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At least half a dozen car clubs from around the Lower Mainland will be represented at the show.

It will take place in the west parking lot of Maple Ridge secondary, beside Mount Crescent elementary, and will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m..

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Tighter water sprinkling rules now enforced Metro homes limited to three mornings a week

by J eff Nage l Black Press Metro Vancouver residents now face possible ďŹ nes if they sprinkle their lawns in the evening, in contravention of a ban approved last year by the regional board.

Enforcement of the new Metro water conservation policy, which limits residential lawn sprinkling to three mornings per week between 4 and 9 a.m., was delayed until this summer to give some municipalities more time to notify residents.

It’s in effect from June 1 to Sept. 30 and all area municipalities have now revised their bylaws to reect the changes.

But Stan Woods, a senior engineer at Metro, predicts there will be more emphasis on education than on enforcement.

He said it will be up to individual municipalities as to how the policy is enforced and when tickets are issued.

Surrey’s bylaw provides for ďŹ nes of $200 for violators.

Metro has plenty of drinking water available most of the year but wants to control peak period summer use to forestall the eventual need for more reservoirs or storage tanks.

OfďŹ cials say morning sprinkling is more effective because less water evaporates than during evenings. “For the same amount of water you get much more irrigation beneďŹ t,â€?

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Metro previously estimated morning-only sprinkling would cut regional water use at peak hours by 12 per cent and by three per cent on peak days.

Although most municipalities were already directing residents to follow the new rules last summer, Woods was unable to say how effective the policy was in cutting use last year because of the unusually cool and rainy weather last June and July. “We saw very low peak day demands last year, but a large part of that was because of the weather,� he said.

Even-numbered addresses can sprinkle Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, while odd-numbered homes get Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

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Stan Woods, Metro senior engineer Residents previously were allowed to sprinkle both mornings and evenings on two designated days.

Woods said established lawns only need an hour of sprinkling a week if there’s no rain.

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the federal governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 10-cent tax pulls in $208 million from Metro, provincial gas tax of 8.5 per is worth $177 million, the carbon tax of 6.67 cents as of July will be nearly $140 million and the ďŹ ve per cent federal HST generates another $145.6 million.

For a 64-litre tank ďŹ llup, taxes account for more than $31 and could add up to nearly $1,600 per year for a two-car family.

Much of Ottawaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s take is handed back to TransLink via cities for transportation investment, but Bateman said governments should allocate all gas taxes to roads and bridges or cut them immediately. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re told tolls are necessary for projects like the Highway 1/Port Mann Bridge expansion,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Clearly there is enough money

being taken from drivers to fund these priorities, but government is spending the cash elsewhere.â&#x20AC;?

Province-wide, motorists will pay $1.82 billion to various levels of government through gas taxes.

Bateman noted drivers are further taxed through tolls, ICBCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s auto insurance monopoly, municipal property taxes for roads, development cost charges, vehicle registration fees, vehicle purchase taxes, parking taxes and driversâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; licence fees. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no wonder B.C. drivers are feeling so stretched â&#x20AC;&#x201C; government views them as its personal drive-thru ATM machine.â&#x20AC;?

Vancouver area gas prices averaged around $1.44 per litre in recently, about six cents short of the all-time record high.

TLink cuts taxi subsidy TransLink has riled frail seniors and the disabled by chopping a program that gives them up to $50 a month in taxi subsidies in order to save $1.1 million a year.

TransLink says it will plow the money saved back into its HandyDart program and offer more custom transit rides that way, as well as with taxis sent by HandyDart dispatchers.

But users of the TaxiSaver program, which offered $100 per month in taxi coupons at a 50 per cent discount, are furious. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The taxi is a lifeline for me,â&#x20AC;? said Lilo Ljubisic, a blind Burnaby resident and ďŹ ve-time Paralympian in shot put and discus. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The peanuts theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re talking about saving on the backs of people who are marginalized and disadvantaged in society is appalling.â&#x20AC;?

Ljubisic used the taxi coupons in combination with regular transit

and HandyDart to get around, in part because HandyDart requests get denied up to half the time unless theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re booked far in advance.

TransLink spokesman Drew Snider said TaxiSavers had become an uncontrolled cost with 85 per cent of users not actually using HandyDart.

Many of them were stockpiling the taxi coupons, resulting in a growing liability for TransLink, with nothing to prevent holders from giving or reselling them to unauthorized users.

Snider said the taxi subsidy was originally launched in 1990 to ďŹ ll in a service gap at a time when the bus ďŹ&#x201A;eet wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t accessible. All buses now have low ďŹ&#x201A;oors or lifts, he said, and HandyDart has expanded greatly, with its vehicles running until midnight.

Meanwhile, he said, the pressure to keep up with rising HandyDart demand has been intense.

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Draw dad Does you dad love to watch hockey? Does he love to golf or fish, fix old cars or build projects with wood? Does your dad coach your sports teams, barbeque a great steak, play a mean guitar?

Whatever it is he loves to do, we want you to draw him in action, and send it to us, hard copy or scanned version. We’ll post it to the contest section of our website (mapleridgenews.com), then readers will vote for the winner.

The prize: eight rounds of golf at Golden Eagle Golf Course, including four carts, as well as a $50 gift certificate. Total value: $696.

The Draw Dad contest begins Friday, May 25. Entries will be accepted until Sunday, June 3. Voting ends June 17, and the winner will be announced the next day, June 18.

A selection of drawings will also run in a special Father’s Day section in the June 13 edition of the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows News.

• Send your drawings to editor@mapleridgenews.com or 22328 – 119th Avenue, Maple Ridge, B.C., V2X 2Z3.

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News earns community award

Allergies

Russell Mechanical, Leanne Koehn also honoured staff reporter The Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows News has received a nod of recognition for its work in the community from the District of Maple Ridge.

News publisher Jim Coulter accepted the Spirit of Community Good Business Award Tuesday at council’s meeting.

The award was given to two businesses, one with more than 25 employees (The News), and another with fewer.

Russell Mechanical Systems won the award in the latter category.

Criteria for the good business award include involvement in community events, donations of goods or services and supporting employee involvement in the community.

“The ad department, in particular [ad manager] Carly Ferguson, continually provide ‘in kind’

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News publisher Jim Coulter accepts the community award at Tuesday’s council meeting.

See video @ mapleridgenews.com. ad space for non-profit and community events.

Many organizations are able to get their message out, which may not have been possible without the generosity of The News,” said Linda Morgan, chair of the social planning advisory committee.

“We are proud of our community and strive to contribute in a positive way. To have our efforts recognized in this manner is very gratifying,” Coulter said.

Russell Mechanical was thanked for its help with minor sports.

“Russell’s contribution has made a difference to the health and wellness and competence of children and youth in our community,” said the award announcement.

Leanne Koehn, who lives in Hammond, also won a Good Neighbour Award for promoting the community. The first year she moved into Hammond she held a Christmas party to meet her neighbours.

Those are now regular events.

She’s also trying to organize a Hammond residents’ association.

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Raising Funds for Youth Groups in Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows

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Luxury Cruise for Two aboard Holland America Cruise Line. Value: $3200.

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by J eff Nage l Black Press The Fraser River is at risk of much more frequent and devastating floods because of the rapid pace of logging in the B.C. Interior to salvage vast stands of beetlekilled timber, according to a UBC researcher.

Younes Alila, an associate professor of forest hydrology, says the provincial government must take a hard look at the downstream threat from the high rate of logging.

“The public needs to know how much they’re at risk so they are prepared,” he said. “People’s lives are at stake.

Economic disruption is at stake.”

Alila looked at small tributary drainages in the Interior and found much faster rates of runoff in areas that have been heavily logged in response to the mountain pine beetle epidemic.

“The 100-year flood may come once in 20 years,” Alila said. “It could easily become five times as frequent.”

He cannot say with certainty that his findings from smaller upcountry tributaries translate directly to more risk of the mainstem Fraser flooding in the Lower Mainland.

But much of the runoff that ends up going through the lower Fraser Valley originates in

snow melting in the upper Fraser, Nechako or Cariboo – areas of the watershed heavily hit by the beetle where logging crews have been authorized to cut at unsustainably high levels so wood isn’t wasted.

Alila said the upper 60 per cent of the Fraser basin is also particularly sensitive to rapid runoff from logging because much of the region has relatively flat, subdued topography.

The snowpack melts faster in logged areas because there are fewer trees to shade and slow the melt, he said. Less water is absorbed by tree roots or evaporates due to snow being held aloft in branches.

Snow in more mountainous areas tends to melt at different rates because of the differing elevations and aspects, but on flatter terrain the melt is more synchronized and flooding can be much worse.

The Nechako and upper Fraser basins are also the ones where snowpack levels this spring are 50 per cent above normal, contributing to an elevated risk of flooding throughout the watershed, according to the River Forecast Centre.

Alila said more intense, heavy runoff in the Interior due to salvage logging will also result in more scouring of channels throughout the watershed, increasing the amount of silt and sediment ultimately deposited in the lower Fraser.

More silt effectively raises the riverbed in

the Lower Mainland and reduces the Fraser’s capacity before dikes are overtopped.

Alila argues the province should reduce salvage logging or do it more selectively, and ensure logged areas are rapidly replanted to quickly provide shade.

Dave Maloney, a forest water management officer for the province, said Alila’s findings were reviewed by the forests ministry.

He did not disagree with the research – noting hydrologists have previously said runoff in beetle-infested areas is a

concern – but added Alila focused on Baker Creek, a particularly flat watershed in the Quesnel area that may have amplified his results.

Lower Mainland mayors are continuing to press the federal government for support to dredge sections of the river to reduce the risk of a flood.

More than 300,000 people live on the lower Fraser’s floodplain, according to the Fraser Basin Council, and a major flood would cause billions of dollars in damage along with possible loss of lives and injuries.

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Pre-season estimates of this year’s sockeye salmon run suggest it’s unlikely enough fish will return to the Fraser for fishery managers to approve a commercial catch.

Pacific Salmon Commission chief biologist Mike Lapointe said 1.2 million to 3.8 million sockeye are forecast to return.

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A low sockeye run may mean aboriginal-only catch this summer. in recent years, but said the small number of salmon that spawned in 2008 dictates that this year’s return will not be large.

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Emily Bateson (left) and her cousin Melissa Powell, both 10, suffer from cystic fibrosis. On Sunday, May 27, the cousins will lead a walk in Pitt Meadows to raise funds for a cure.

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CEO Ian Jarvis also intends to raise $220 million by selling off property like the Oakridge transit centre in Vancouver and relocating operations to cheaper land.

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Those are just some of the big bets in TransLinkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s revised ďŹ nancial outlook that Jarvis presented to Metro Vancouver mayors Tuesday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got lots of risks that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re facing,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to come here and come across as whining. We will size our operations to match the revenues available to us.â&#x20AC;?

The transportation authority is struggling to decide what bus service expansions promised in a plan approved last year can proceed in light of a series of budget challenges.

Besides the nixed fare hike and a challenge from its regulator to instead ďŹ nd $20 million per year in cuts, mayors last month rejected a twoyear increase in property taxes, leaving another $30 million annual hole.

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The bulk of that â&#x20AC;&#x201C; $55 million â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is to come from much deeper â&#x20AC;&#x153;optimizationâ&#x20AC;? of bus routes and runs than TransLink has so far embarked on to pull in more fares at less cost.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expected to mean more pressure to scrap or curtail less used bus routes in growing suburbs â&#x20AC;&#x201C; where service is heavily subsidized now to promote future ridership â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and increase runs where existing demand is stronger and closer to break-even.

Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart said redeploying buses to the urban centre ďŹ&#x201A;ies in the face of efforts by outlying cities to build transitfriendly neighbourhoods on the promise better service will come. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re selling the future of our transit-oriented neighbourhoods in the suburbs,â&#x20AC;? Stewart said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re selling that out so we can operate more efďŹ ciently today.

And Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m struggling with that.â&#x20AC;?

Jarvis admitted the choices are not easy and promised there will be more consultation with affected cities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to get into the tougher decisions,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Those are the tradeoffs that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have to make: ďŹ nance versus reliability of service versus quality of service versus coverage.â&#x20AC;?

Other mayors said theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re troubled TransLink is selling real estate assets to fund operations, calling that unsustainable.

Finding still more savings â&#x20AC;&#x201C; perhaps $40 million over three years â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is achievable, Jarvis said, but not without more signiďŹ cant hits to service or

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would need to ďŹ nd a further $60 million in savings over the three years.

And if TransLink is unable to sell its surplus land in time, it could burn through its entire $188 million accumulated reserve by 2015.

Nor is the recent push to bust more fare evaders expected to help much.

Jarvis said TransLinkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plan already assumes a $4 million improvement in fare collection thanks to tougher enforcement and new tools to collect ďŹ nes could add â&#x20AC;&#x153;a couple millionâ&#x20AC;? more in fares and ďŹ nes collected.

staff working conditions.

Meanwhile, a decline in gas tax revenue â&#x20AC;&#x201C; as people drive less or buy more fuel outside Metro Vancouver â&#x20AC;&#x201C; means TransLink will take in $120 million less than it previously expected over the next three years.

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Future quality of elder care an illusion I read an article not too long ago that advocated for the government to pay “salaries” to families or individuals who are providing care for their aging relatives in their home.

The insinuation was that by providing home care, at their own cost, families were subsidizing the work of the government.

We have grown accustomed to thinking that the responsibility for our care, from the crib to the grave, lies in a mixture of private and public funding. It is certainly difficult to argue that providing public services in education and health care do not contribute, significantly, to a better society.

As Canadians, we have understood and accepted that notion for a long time, thus making us the envy of much of the world when it comes to lifestyle.

It is important to recognize that there has been, and continues to be, a cost for such services.

Our tax rate is relatively high compared to many countries, a function of both a small population and a very large country that requires a significant investment in infrastructure to bring excellent services to all Canadians.

We have been fortunate, as a nation, to have abundant resources that we can sell to subsidize our expenses and we have also been fortunate, in the past, to be able to tag along with the economic juggernaut to the south of us. We can scream patriotic fervour all we want, but the reality is that

much of our economic success has come from the massive trade relationship we have had with a country that, just a few years ago, produced Parenting one third Graham Hookey of all the of wealth in the world.

As we have seen in the last few years, and particularly in Europe, the economic wheels of massive government responsibility are falling off. Even the U.S. has felt a huge constriction in economic activity, and the result has been the gutting of many manufacturing opportunities in Canada as companies have shrunk and retrenched in areas of the U.S. where labour costs, transportation costs and taxation rates are lower. Our oil reserves have saved us from a steep fall, like some countries. But we should not be too complacent about our risk of a significant downturn in lifestyle expectations.

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It is, quite simply, an expense.

Can we expect that our governments will be able to follow through on all of the promises made to us during the ‘good times,’ about pensions, health services and long-term care? A look over our shoulders to Europe should remind us that government promises can be pretty hollow when made in the heat of elections and projected out well past the time when such elected officials will actually have to take responsibility for them. I believe it is an illusion to think the current working generation will be able to pay for the quality of care promised their parents.

At the same time, it is highly unlikely that quality care for the elderly can be provided by all families, any more than we can believe that quality education could be provided solely by parents. There must be a concerted effort for private and public entities to creatively devise eldercare options that provide good quality care at a reasonable cost to everyone. I do not believe this is solely the role of the government, unless of course we all want to be very disappointed with what we get as financial limitations are manifested in drugged seniors put in a corner where they are no bother to anyone. (ghookey@yahoo.com).

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Hydro rate hike trimmed for 2013

by Tom Fletcher Black Press VICTORIA – Despite controversial private power contracts and approval of two pricy dam refits, BC Hydro’s rate increase will be only 1.44 per cent next year, Energy Minister Rich Coleman announced Tuesday.

Coleman said the B.C. government is instructing the B.C. Utilities Commission (BCUC) to limit rate increases to a total of 17 per cent for the three-year period ending April 1, 2014. With rates up 7.1 per cent since April of this year and last year’s eight-per-cent hike, the 1.44 per cent increase for next year is to meet a political commitment made by Coleman and Premier Christy Clark last year to reduce planned rate increases by half.

The smallest rate increase in years is to take effect April 1, 2013, just weeks before the next provincial election. And the latest government instruction means a BCUC public hearing on the latest rates won’t proceed.

Coleman said in an interview the directed increase was not done for election purposes, but because it was the simplest way to proceed. A “negotiated settlement” with major ratepayer groups means a BCUC hearing that could run for months isn’t necessary, he said.

NDP energy critic John Horgan said Tuesday the government’s move is the latest in a series of political interventions

into BC Hydro policy.

It forced the utility to buy private power on expensive long-term contracts, it imposed the smart meter program and moved ahead on the Site C dam on the Peace River, all without review by the BCUC to see if they are in the best interests of ratepayers, he said.

“This is a Crown corporation, the envy of North America, and these guys have run it into the ditch,” Horgan said.

Coleman launched a review of BC Hydro last year, after Clark spoke out against the prospect of a 50 per cent increase in hydro rates expected over five years.

The review by deputy ministers said reducing BC Hydro staff and in-house engineering, along with other cost-saving measures, would meet the government’s target of keeping annual rate increases below four per cent.

But the BCUC’s rate hearings pushed the increase for the current year up to 7.1 per cent, to increase repayment of debt that has been stacked up in recent years.

Auditor General John Doyle issued a report last year that said the government was taking annual dividends from BC Hydro that were not justified by its earnings, and the utility was increasing deferred debt as a result.

Coleman announced Tuesday that the province was able to reach its rate goal by forgoing $75 million in dividends over three years.

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The Ruskin Dam in the Fraser Valley (shown) and the John Hart Dam near Campbell River are two major reconstruction projects that will increase BC Hydro debt in the years to come.

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I can remember one such stormy weekend when he couldn’t barbeque in the garage (my mom had hung laundry in there), so he used a little extra fire starter (this was the round barbeque and charcoal briquette era) to get it going in the rain, then brought it just inside the kitchen door to cook on. Everything was going fine until he added too much sauce and the chicken started to smoke, leaving sooty evidence on the ceiling that my mom didn’t overlook when she got back from shopping.

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Photos by Mike Lascelle

(From left) Fuchsia ‘Island Sunset’; fuchsia ‘Santa Claus’; and fuchsia magellanica ‘Aurea.’ a South American species, fuchsia magellanica, which grows as a 60- 90-centimetres high shrub here (taller in warmer climates) with slender crimson and purple flowers that the hummingbirds find irresistible. There are also several good cultivars of this species, including ‘Riccartonii’, ‘Aurea’ (shorter growing with bright gold foliage) and ‘Alba’ with very pale pink blossoms.

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www.donschmidt.ca 6846 sq. ft. spectacular house. You will fall in love with the outside cultured stone, gables full of pot lights and a huge triple driveway to match the garage with 10ft doors and the third bay 30ft deep perfect for the RV. Country kitchen with double wall ovens, gas cooktop, warming drawer, microwave drawer and pot filter. Listen to your favorite music throughout the home with volume controls in each rm including the heated garage & outside deck. There are 4 bdrms & 3 baths, 2 bdrms have walk-in closet as big as a bdrm complete with built-in cabinetry.

Ensuite has a huge walk-in shower big enough to have a party in!

8 New Estate Lots Home Site For Sale! 25580 - 112th Ave.,

8 RS1B lots available in Albion area backing onto acreage 22535 Kendrick property and across from Loop Samuel Robertson School.

“SUITE ABLE” Building permits available in Great family home in central July. One lot accommodates Maple Ridge. Quiet street, triple garage. close to schools, shopping $ and parks. 4 bedrooms, 2 Starting from Call for your lot layout drawing. baths. Fully finished down.

Terms available.

279,800

Maple Ridge Never been built on 3.1 acres with Kanaka Creek as a boundary. City water and lots of privacy.

Call Don Schmidt for an information package.

Offered at

$

369,800

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$

314,900

#103 11609 227 Street

12723 256 Street

16 20841 Dewdney Trunk Road

This spacious ground floor unit in an exceptional 55+ concrete building is quiet and comfortable. This bright suite with a lovely gas fireplace makes for cosy nights. The low maintenance fees include gas and hot water. Don’t miss out this immaculate unit will not last.

3 bdrm rancher with 7+ acreage on city water with future potential. View of the Golden Ears mountains, close to town centre, schools and regional park. The back end of this property could have future access. All measurements approximate and Buyer to verify if important.

This beautifully laid out 2 level townhouse has 3 good sized bedrooms with 3 pce ensuite off the master. Centrally located near shopping, theatres, Golden Ears Bridge and transit. Kichler Station is well maintained, has a kids play park, and lovely neighbours.

24878 121 Avenue

11702 Furukawa Place, Maple Ridge

Clean and cozy 3 bedroom rancher on beautiful 9000sqft lot. New roof, windows, and high efficiency furnace in 2011.

Fully fenced yard features large deck, hot tub, and insulated workshop with heat, 30amp power, and water. Short walk to schools, transit, and corner store. Offered at just $379,000

GORGEOUS CORNER LOT! 1,468 sq.ft three-bdrm rancher features sunken living room, gas fireplace, two full baths and enclosed sunporch looking over the manicured garden.

Over-sized garage and RV parking, too. WEST SIDE! Priced to sell at $435,700.

THERESA KNIGHT

PAMELA DANZ

LOGAN ESKESEN

MAGGIE PRINCE

604-307-0700

778-235-0549

604-603-7658

604-862-4524

www.pameladanz.com

tknight@macrealty.com

LoganEskesen.com

mprince@macrealty.com

DICK HUBER MIKE HUBER SCOTT MEADUS 604.250.3977 604.839.8647 604.313.5727 WWW.HUBERMEADUS.COM OPEN HOUSE SAT 2-4PM

#7–11757 236th Street V939955

$268,800

OPEN HOUSE SUN 2-4PM

12169 240th Street V929994

$669,900

OPEN HOUSE SAT 2-4PM

OPEN HOUSE SAT 2-4PM

OPEN HOUSE SUN 11-1PM

OPEN HOUSE SUN 2-4PM

10340 240th Street

#16–11536 236th Street

#50–12296 224th Street

#20–11282 Cottonwood Drive

V929330

$479,900

V952360

$308,800

OPEN HOUSE SUN 2-4PM

OPEN SAT & SUN 2-4PM

11930 239th Street

#37–24185 106B Avenue

V934938

$559,900

V930246

$528,800

V937830

$184,800

OPEN SAT & SUN 12-5PM

13432 Balsam Street V902312

$549,900

V945432

$388,800

OPEN SAT & SUN 12-5PM

23418 Huston Drive V925585

$629,500

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JASON

BRENDA EXNER

EXNER

Experience working for you since 1980

604-603-8043

your family t your home t your town t your agent

604-818-9851 www.jasonexner.com OPEN HOUSE SAT MAY 26 2-4 PM

OPEN HOUSE SUN MAY 27 2-4 PM

NEW PRICE

269,900

STRAWBERRY HILLS

THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE TRACKS!

24732 57B Avenue, Langley

#215 19091 Mcmyn Road, Pitt Meadows

• • • •

• • • •

2900 sq ft rancher with games room.

New flooring, windows, doors, paint, roof, and appliances.

All on a beautiful .52 acre lot in a very quiet neighbourhood.

1300 sq. ft. Shop. A place for all your toys!

$

Great open floor plan. 2 Bedrooms + den.

Huge master bedroom and ensuite.

Walk to shopping/dining.

Laminate floors throughout. All new stainless appliances.

539,900

20207 Chigwell Street, Maple Ridge

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MLS# V923695

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MLS# V933314

Gorgeous 2900 sq ft basement entry has a bright in law suite plus a home office area downstairs. Kitchen has maple cabinetry and adjoining family room. The living/dining area has a vaulted ceiling and a gas F/P. Master bedroom has a 4 pce ensuite with a jetted tub! Large corner lot with RV parking and room to build a shop, on a quiet no through street. Truly a winning combination! Call Brenda today!

$

$

20 YEAR LIFE MEMBER MEDALLION REALTOR

West Maple Ridge

OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY 2-4 PM

OFFERED AT

867,500

Email: brenda@ brendaexner.com

See virtual tours of all my listings at www.brendaexner.com

DICK HUBER 604.250.3977

$349,000

MIKE HUBER 604.839.8647

SCOTT MEADUS 604.313.5727

759,900

$

$850,000

Rancher

Grow Your Own Super Food

HORSES, HORSES, HORSES

11655 203 Street, Maple Ridge

13820 224 Street, Maple Ridge

Here’s 5 acres of perfect horse property in Stave Falls or for anyone with horses or wanting a hobby farm to grow your own food. The home is perfect for a family with 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, huge country kitchen and a great fire pit. The property is all fenced and mostly pasture and the barn is multi purpose with box stalls and plenty of room for everything else.

• Super cute 2 bedroom rancher • New laminate floors • Freshly painted

• New blinds • One car garage • Steps to transportation

• 10 acre blueberry farm • Approx. 9 acres of Blue Crop and 1 acre of Duke • Same owner since 1979

Al & Brenda

JENKINS

• ALR restrictions, no rezoning, no subdividing • Perfect for produce only

604-467-3871

MLS#V952450

www.brendajenkins.com

Cell: 604-351-0235

• Very well maintained, fully updated 24 yr old split level home • Centrally located on cul-de-sac • Great location for the kids • Efficient kitchen with stainless appliances • Excellent family home

$434,900

24748 Kimola Drive

Call Lisa at 604-970-2209

$

569,900

849,900

Just about ready.

1925 sq. ft. rancher.

3 bdrms & 2 baths.

Close to town centre.

Ideal family home.

$

11520 FIR STREET

CALL TODAY FOR MORE DETAILS! • • • • •

624,800

$

12652 228TH STREET

• Built by Georgie Award winning Falcon Homes • Outstanding views, quiet family oriented neighborhood • Exceptional kitchen complete with granite counters, stainless appliances, and pantry • Open “Great Room” layout • Unfinished basement awaiting ideas

23239 117TH AVENUE

VIEW OF THE FRASER RIVER • • • • •

Large .81 acre lot (35,457 sq ft).

4 bdrms & 4 baths. Open floor plan.

Large updated kitchen.

Jetted tub for two in ensuite.

Private setting with large sundeck.

GREAT FAMILY NEIGHBORHOOD • • • • •

Brand new kitchen Stainless steel appliances 4 bdrms with open floor plan 7,798 sq. ft. lot with view of Golden Ears Walking distance to schools & town

MLS # V911660

MLS# V947374

MLS# V932348

OPEN SATURDAY 12-2 PM

OPEN SUNDAY 1-4 PM

$696,900+ HST Call Dave at 604-341-0783 24650 100th Avenue $

Home and Income!

An Escape From the City!

• Great investment potential • 6.72 acres on Southwest side of Thornhill • 2 homes, 3500 sq ft and 1080 sq ft • Huge 3 bay shop with overheight doors • Tons of outside storage space • Currently bringing in over $5000/month • Call today for more information

• Rare opportunity to own acreage without all the work • 0.57 of an acre with fully updated 2600 sq ft house • Rural location surrounded by farmland • Large kitchen that leads to great deck that is perfect for entertaining

Call Lisa at 604-970-2209

Call Lisa at 604-970-2209

23870 106th Avenue

13877 McKechnie Road

$649,900

QUICK POSSESSION

Open Sat & Sun 2-4 In Search of Excellence?

• Very clean, well maintained home • Great open layout with tons of natural light and floor to ceiling rock fireplace • Gourmet kitchen with center island, lots of cupboards and an eating area • Backyard has 2 large decks and backs onto greenspace • An ideal spot for entertaining

$589,900

E-mail: travis_franklin@telus.net

OPEN SAT & SUN 1-3 PM

Seller Says SELL! Try Your Offer!

• Brand new family style home located in the prestigious Silver Ridge Estates • Built by Portrait Homes, Birch floor plan • Features 3 bdrms up, gourmet granite kitchen, and open plan • Spectacular view from master bedroom • Ready to move in

Welcome Home!

•

22610 125A Avenue

No Strata=No Strata Fees!

Call Lisa at 604-970-2209

Selling your Home for all it’s worth

Residential & Commercial Real Estate

www.teamtelep.com Lisa 604-970-2209 • lisa@teamtelep.com • Dave 604-341-0783

$439,900

604-617-9642

$749,000

TRAVIS FRANKLIN

TEAMTELEP 22986 Gilbert Drive

RON MITCHELL

26684 Cunningham Avenue

$1,190,000

Call Dave at 604-341-0783

549,900

424,900

$

11339 DARTFORD STREET TRADITIONAL LAYOUT • • • • •

Completely renovated.

Extensive interior finishing.

Roof top deck off master.

Loft & Nanny Suite.

Double sided wood fireplace.

22870 123RD AVENUE

11746 MORRIS STREET

RENOVATED FROM TOP TO BOTTOM!

COMPLETELY RENOVATED

$

489,000

• • • • •

3 bdrms & 2 bath Rancher.

Large 8512 sq ft lot.

Quiet street on cul-de-sac.

Move in, relax & enjoy!

Great westside location.

DAVE TELEP PERSONAL REAL ESTATE CORPORATION

“Our service will move you”

Maple Ridge Office 22718 Lougheed Highway

MLS# V943403

MLS# V933638

604.467.3871

MLS# V952039

www.macrealty.com

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For the way you live

778-988-1224

DEBBIE SHEPPARD 604-312-3705

OFFICE 604-466-2838

debbiesheppard.com

FEATURE HOME OF THE WEEK

W NE

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W NE $

OPEN SUNDAY 2 - 4 PM 602-22230 NORTH AVE. PENTHOUSE It’s a beauty

G TIN LIS

$

398,000

$

209,900

644,500

BEGINNER’S LUCK CAN BE YOURS

PICK UP THE KEYS

LARGE FAMILY?

…in this beautifully maintained 3 bedroom rancher, an excellent starter home for the first time buyer at a comfortable price and great location.

Call Terri today for a private tour!

…to this move in ready 2 bedroom 2 bath open layout condo and live in the best part of town! If you like to be close to shops, restaurants and recreation you’ll want to make this YOUR home!

…then don’t miss out on this Oakvale built Maple Crest home. If you like elbowroom then you’ll love the three spacious bedrooms and a loft that could be a 4th bedroom. Designed for family living!

View more pictures and information at www.terrismith.ca

• Views of Fraser River and Mt. Baker • 2 bedrooms, 2 washrooms

ROB JEEVES 604-240-2629

• 1096 sq. ft., high ceilings

$

219,900

• Close to West Coast Express

Ask Rob Jeeves

W NE $

259,900

$

549,900

BACKING GREENBELT • End unit, backing greenbelt • 1040 sq. ft., 2 bedrooms, 2 baths • Enclosed garage, central air conditioning • Brandywynd - a 45+ complex

PERFECT FOR THE LARGE FAMILY

$1600/MTH INCLUDES TRIPLE NET

• Located on 1.25 usable acres in Whonnock • 2525 sq. ft. 1 1/2 storey home • Deep garage with room behind, plus detached shop • Handyman special • CALL TO PREVIEW!

• 1600 sq. ft. In Garibaldi Place • Ground floor unit • Great for office or studio, CD588 zoning • Walking to all downtown amenities • Plenty of parking, vacant now

Ron Antalek

$484,900 12520 222 STREET, MAPLE RIDGE

• 2 Storey with Basement & Rec Room • Backs on to greenbelt • Floor to ceiling rock fireplace • Deluxe master with vaulted ceiling • Fully fenced back yard • Great location close to schools & shops

• Recently renovated 3 bdrm / 2 bath rancher • Updated kitchen, new cabinets + floors • Newer roof, windows

• Newer high efficiency furnace • Large fenced back yard • Great family neighbourhood

www.AskRobJeeves.com • email: rjeeves@shaw.ca

OPEN SATURDAY & SUNDAY 12 - 5

OPEN SATURDAY & SUNDAY 12 - 5

NEW HOMES WITH A VIEW

IN BC

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$639,000 GREAT FAMILY NEIGHBOURHOOD

• 4, 077 sqft • 5 bdrm + 4 bath • 2 acres (could be subdivided) • Deluxe master with fireplace • 600 sq ft deck off bedroom • Oversized family room

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WHONNOCK ACREAGE

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5.9 ACRES GREAT FOR HORSES

END UNIT TOWNHOME

24818 - 100 Avenue

#63 - 23085 - 118 Avenue $334,900

$749,900 • Thornhill 5.9 acres with a large basement home.

• 2400 sq. ft 7 stall barn, riding ring and paddocks.

• On city water. Near urban boundary, transit, schools and riding trails.

• Sommerville Garden end unit.

• Updated with a new kitchen, new appliances, new flooring.

• 3 bedrooms + den. 3 bathrooms.

• Gas fireplace. Garage.

• Near schools, transit and shopping.

Starting at $439,000 Showhome at 10558 Jackson Road • Albion Terraces quality built nicely finished new 2 storey homes with basements.

• Separate entrance. Easy to make into an inlaw suite.

• Appliances, blinds and landscaping included • 9 foot ceilings on the main floor.

• Spacious kitchen with granite countertops, island and desk.

• Gas fireplace in the family room.

• Attached or detached double garage. www.albionterraces.com

NEW HOMES BUILT BY ONNI

MAIN STONE CREEK Starting at $463,900

Showhome at 10132 - 240 Street • Quality built 2 storey homes with basements built by Onni Group • 3 or 4 bedrooms. Open floor plans • Gas fireplace in the great room • Maple kitchen with granite countertops, island & pantry • Fridge, stove, dishwasher, microwave, washer, dryer, garberator • Double garage

OPEN SATURDAY & SUNDAY 1 - 4

OPEN SATURDAY & SUNDAY 1 - 4

Cottonwood Ridge

NEW HOMES IN A GREAT LOCATION

Johnny Pacheco, Ron Antalek, Rob Johnson, Nancy Newman (admin), Brianne Isherwood (admin), Cory Lunsted, Louise Antalek*

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Independently owned & operated (*Based on total transactions Re/Max Western Canada Team 2010) *LICENSED ASSISTANT

www.ronantalek.com www.robrealtor.com (multi-picture tours)

.77 ACRE WITH SHOP AND BARN 26011 Dewdney Trunk Road $549,900 • .77 acres. Basement home with 2 bedroom inlaw suite.

• Main floor has hardwood & laminate floors.

• 1,000 sq. ft shop, barn, riding area and paddock. RV parking.

10554 - 239 Street JUST REDUCED TO $669,900 • • • •

The Plateau at Kanaka Ridge.

Prestigious cul-de-sac backing treed land.

Deck, patio & hot tub.

Deluxe almost 4000 sq. ft. 2 storey + full daylight basement. 4 bdrms up.

• Mstr bdrm has a 3 sided gas fireplace, soaker tub, separate shower & double sink vanity.

• Cathedral family rm ceiling with gas f/p. Den. Great kitchen. Central air conditioning!

22308 Dewdney Trunk Road, Maple Ridge # 2 - 19126 Ford Road, Pitt Meadows

Starting at $329,900 Showhome at #15 11252 Cottonwood Drive

Starting at $539,000 Showhome at 23616-118 Avenue

• Quality built new townhomes • Nicely finished townhomes with 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. Some have a finished basement • Hardwood floors, maple cabinets, granite countertops, crown moldings • Gas fireplace • Garage for 2 cars • 6 appliances and blinds included

• Highland Creek new 2 storey homes.

Mountain view.

• Full basements with separate entrance • Maple kitchen with granite countertops & island, pantry • Great room with gas fireplace • 4 bedrooms upstairs.

• Includes 5 appliances & blinds • Greenbelt/park setting near schools & park

Each office independently owned and operated

604.466.2838

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For the way you live

604-561-0053 COLLEEN

JEFF

LUKE

www.rpluke.com SATURDAY 2–4 PM

E AG RIT ME E H HO

$724,900 1945 Laurier Ave, PoCo.

SAT & SUN 2–5 PM

$769,000 817 Prospect St. Coq.

SUNDAY 2–4 PM

SAT & SUN 2–4 PM R PE SU

NEW LISTING

$699,000 6310 190 St. Cloverdale

Personal Real Estate Corporationn

$1,598,800 3552 Sefton St. PoCo.

$519,000 # 127 23925 116th Ave, M.R.

604-657-6830 www.artneufeld.com JUST LISTED

$749,900

N TIO CA LO

Walk to WC Express

$299,000 # 219 2432 Welcher Ave, PoCo. 13027 – 250TH STREET

Jan Hickman

604-828-3445

The Realtor who unites “Hearts and Homes” OPEN SAT. 2-4PM

22910 136TH AVENUE

1 ACRE, 2 STOREY & BASEMENT!!

SILVER RIDGE!!

4 Bedrooms up, den on main & 2 bedroom suite City sewer, city water, on covenanted greenbelt 16 X 24 fully powered workshop, chicken coop Hardwood, vaults, den, cul-de-sac, gardens

Silver Ridge 2 storey & basement 4 Bedrooms, den, loaded with features Fully finished walkout basement 3546 Square feet on a 6000 foot lot

OPEN SUN. 2-4PM

$829,900

SOLD

THIS IS NOT A MISPRINT $ 398,800 That’s all the owner is asking for this 3 bedroom, 2 bath, plus 1 bedroom in-law suite in a quiet West Side neighbourhood.

The home has country-style kitchen, hardwood floors, garage, a large private yard and a great deal more.

Licensed Assistant

12520 222 STREET

23740 120B AVENUE

Never on a Sunday will you find an almostnew 3 bdrm, 2 bath rancher in the Davidson subdivision with a lovely view of the Golden Ears. New kitchen, new carpet, new roof, air conditioned, double garage, and all being offered at our open house for $484,900.

All for the family–the neighbourhood you dreamed of, with quiet tree-lined streets, well kept homes and lawns, friendly people, and children laughing. The house has 5 bedrooms, 3 baths, double garage, and fully finished basement, perfect for growing or extended family. Priced to sell at $534,900.

24103 102B AVENUE

11267 PALMER ROLPH ROAD

HOMESTEAD BY CAVALIER!!

COUNTRY LOG HOME!!

Spotless 2577 2 Storey with basement home 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, rec room down On greenbelt, fenced yard, double garage Great Albion location, close to schools

2 Kitchens, 2 laundries, 5 bathrooms 3.72 Peaceful acres with a drilled well 4429 Square foot 2 storey on crawl space All new 2 years ago, all permits in place

Dewdney Trunk Rd. Justin Hennessey 22308 Maple Ridge BC V2X 3J2

Real Estate Specialist.

LifeStyles Realty

www.justinhennessey.com

Independently Owned and Operated.

Direct: 604.805.4669 Office: 604.466.2838 Fax: 604.467.8754 E-mail: justin@justinhennessey.com

Magnolia Gate - Best Priced 2 bdrm Apt.

Centrally Located 3 Bdrm Split Level

• $15,000 below assessment • 2 bdrm., 2 bath.

• Huge ground floor patio • Quick possession

$ 109-22255 122nd Ave., Maple Ridge

207,900

• Unbeatable value • Close to town, transit & shopping • Updated kitchen, laminate floor

$ 21741 Howison Ave., Maple Ridge

Like New with NO HST! Bsmt Entry Close to All Ammenities! Bsmt Entry • New kitchen, floors, baths, roof & fascia • Room for growing family OPEN SAT. & SUN. 1-4

23899 119A Ave., Maple Ridge

$

487,900

Discover Trails Edge

OPEN SUN. 1-4

12116 238B Ave ., Maple Ridge

$

• Master on main • Georgie award winning community • Final phase over 90% sold

$

389,900

• Fully finished 5 bdrms, almost 3,100 sq. ft.

• Hardwood up with open floor plan • Room for growing family

519,900

OPEN SAT. 1-4 & SUN. 2-4

439,900 +N ET +HST

96-24185 106B Ave., Maple Ridge

Falcon Oaks Bsmt Entry

• Easy to show • Almost 2,900 ft. fully finished • 4 bdrm. & den

OPEN SAT. & SUN. 12-4

$

23740 120B Ave ., Maple Ridge

Alouette Estates One Private Acre on City Water & Sewer • Professionally renovated • New kitchen with granite counters • Engineered hardwood, brick fireplaces • Fully finished bsmt.

534,900

Walking distance to Alexander Robinson elementary, Starbucks, Cooper’s, Macdonalds and Transit.

13019 250th Ave ., Maple Ridge

$

789,900

view more listings & pics @ www.justinhennessey.com 22308 Dewdney Trunk Road, Maple Ridge # 2 - 19126 Ford Road, Pitt Meadows

Each office independently owned and operated

604.466.2838

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Don Hart

Andy Wallace

SELL YOUR HOME WITH HART

604.323.3613

778-988-4278 dhart47@shaw.ca $

229,900

V905869

$

New Listing

Brookside Realty

andywallace@shaw.ca

OPEN SAT 2-4

missionridgehomes.com

New Listing

New Listing

11933 224th St., Maple Ridge

395,000

LOOKING to buy or sell? Contact me for a free, no obligation, market evaluation!

$

104,900

$

265,900

589,000

Lot 15 9055 Shook Rd., #1 20931 Camwood Ave, 29710 Dewdney Tk Rd., Hatzic, Mission Maple Ridge Stave Falls, Mission

• Ground Level Living • Awesome Location Close to Everything in Pitt Meadows • Wheelchair Access • Walking Distance to Westcoast Express $

429,900

V947081

318 22611 116th Ave • Possibly the Largest Condo in Fraserview • Magnificent Views of SW Fraser River • Crown Molding & Custom Post & Pillars • Large Covered Deck $

574,900

New Listing

V944232 $

# 107 12464 191B ST

OPEN SAT &SUN 2-4

Enjoy summer at the Lake with all that it has to offer with this large serviced lot (septic, water and power in place). This flat recreation lot on Hatzic Lake is perfect for your RV or potential for small cabin.

Call for more info.

1,300 sq ft end unit townhouse, backing onto greenbelt. Self managed complex with 8 units & low maintenance fees. Nicely updated 3 bdrms, 2 baths. Updated carpet, tile, flooring, fixtures, paint and more. Perfect location close to everything.

Builder’s own 3 bdrm, 2 bath home sitting on 2.5 acres. 5 yr old roof, 3 yr old high efficiency furnace with A.C., h/w flooring, 10’ x 40’ outside vinyl entertainment deck & more. Fully finished bsmt w/huge rec rm. 2 -2 bay attached garages.

$

597,900 23015 Olund Cres.

Maple Ridge

2,900 sq ft home close to town on view cul-de-sac.

Fully fenced 6,600 sq ft lot, large back deck and more.

Loads of parking and only a 2-minute walk to town, schools and shopping. Have BOTH* A Big house and a Big yard! Call to view!

Anderson & Thompson

V948404

For ALL your real estate needs!

22523 KENDRICK LP

• Beautiful 4 Bedroom Basement Entry • Awesome Greenbelt with Very Private Deck • New Flooring, New Paint, New Vanities • Call me for a personal tour

Alan C. Thompson

David Riddell

Lawyer/Notary Public

Lawyer/Notary Public

604-463-6281 22311 - 119th Avenue, Maple Ridge, BC V2X 2Z2 Fax: 604-463-7497 E-Mail: thompson@vernon-thompson.com, riddell@vernon-thompson.com

12409 HARRIS

GRAND OPENING MAY 26th!

Pricing from $129,900 Features included gas cooktop, granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, laminate wood floor and much more....

REGISTER NOW: LIV42.CA OR CALL 604.460.6601 Site Address: 12409 Harris Road, Pitt Meadows DEVELOPED BY:

MARKETED BY:

THIS IS NOT AN OFFERING FOR SALE. ANY SUCH OFFER CAN ONLY BE MADE WITH A DISCLOSURE STATEMENT. E &O.E.

LAWYER

• 4 Bedroom Home on Greenbelt • Very Private Back Yard • Perfect Basement for the In-Laws • Convenient Located for easy access to Langley

23825 114A AVE

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604.467.5000

Brookside Realty

Helping you is what we do.

ALOUETTE MOBILE PARK $

34,900

CALLING ALL DEVELOPERS AND BUILDERS $ 169,500

CALLING ALL DEVELOPERS AND BUILDERS $ 245,000

11580 223rd Street Maple Ridge

23539 Gilker Hill Rd Maple Ridge

Maple Ridge • Located near the Alouette River.

• Adults 55+, sorry no dogs allowed.

• 3 bedrooms unit, laminate Àooring.

• Nice big covered deck.

• 51 Unit apartment. condominium site at 3rd reading.

• Package available.

Chris Frandsen

$

• Proposed 27 unit townhome project with good home and potential lots.

• Much technical work completed and information. can be made available to quali¿ed buyer.

• Very attractive price per unit • Located near elementary school.

Jim Isherwood

Jim Isherwood

604-467-5131

604-250-7755

604-250-7755

OPEN SUNDAY SUN 2 - 4

GREAT NEIGHBOURHOOD

OPEN SUNDAY SUN 1 - 3

619,900

$

11623 Creekside St

• Richwood Park, 2 storey plus fully ¿nished basement home with a dramatic foyer entrance.

• 12’ ceilings in living room and front den.

• Large chef’s kitchen opens onto the family sized living room, featuring a natural gas ¿replace and opening onto the covered patio.

• This 3900 sq. ft. home also features a sizeable master on the main and 3 bedrooms upstairs.

• Easy to suite, perfect location!

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Maple Ridge • 2 storey with fully ¿nished basement with outside access.

• Maple cabinets in kitchen, island, Bulter’s pantry, large family room off kitchen.

• 4 large bedrooms on the upper level.

• Basement offers 2 bedrooms, den, family room, full cabinets for summer kitchen.

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604-467-5000

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384,900

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Randy & Tracy DeLair

604-463-2991

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399,900

Maple Ridge • Terri¿c location with lovely mtn. views.

• Updated 2069 sq ft duplex home attached only by storage shed.

• 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 5,000 sq. ft. fenced yard backing to greenbelt.

• Finished basement • Priced to sell, shows great!

Karen Bennett

604-463-3000

714,900

Burke Mountain

Pat Drummond

604-467-5000

$

Maple Ridge

529,900

Maple Ridge

• Original 1 of 2 show homes for Trails Edge.

• Duplex end unit, fully ¿nished “C” Plan, shows extremely well. Well located in the complex.

• Master bdrm on main with a 5 piece ensuite.

• Two additional bdrms upstairs.

• Kitchen with granite island, black appliances.

• Window coverings include custom made draperies.

• Great room with built - in cabinetry with great view downstairs has bdrm, family room & rec room.

Randy & Tracy DeLair

Karen Bennett

604-463-3000

604-467-5131 COQUITLAM BURKE MTN

$

• Reduced form $749,000, ENTERTAINERS delight, large games room or pool room?

• Private yard w/gas Bbq hook-up, extra large stone patio.

• Large formal living/dining room with stone feature ¿replace.

• Lower level could be easily converted to large two bedroom suite.

• One of the best views you’ll ¿nd sweeping mountain and city views.

TRAIL’S EDGE

• Stunning 2 storey and basement townhome.

• 3 Large bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, over 2,000 sq ft.

• Great throughout, hardwood and tile Àooring.

• Granite countertops, loads of raised maple cabinets, crown mouldings, upgraded appliance package and much more!

CUSTOM BUILT EAGLE RIDGE $

• Fabulous log home. Extensively remodeled w/3 bdrms up including 2 that are extra large and spacious, personal deck off master bdrm.

• 3 f/p, 4 updated baths, maple hardwood and laminate Àoors.

• Deluxe chilled wine room, media room wired for 7.1 surround.

• Cul-de-sac location, don’t miss out on this.

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NOT TO BE MISSED! $

Coquiltam • Open concept Àoor plan, 20 ft ceilings in great room • Quality hardwood Àooring through out the main Àoor, high end kitchen and appliances, family sized dining area with room to expand.

• Master bedroom has a large walk-in closet and a “spa like” en suite.

• The basement is fully ¿nished and can adapt to every ones. needs.

• Lot is located on the westside of the cul de sac.

Gina Halinda

604-467-5131

1,100,000

Maple Ridge

• Level cleared 5 acre property with beautiful maintained custom rancher.

• 1800 sq. ft. main, 2’ x 6’ construction.

• Hot water heat, corian counters, high end windows, patio doors.

• Basement offers a legal suite and large recreation room.

• 30’x40’x14’ high shop and a pull thru for RV. • Property is fenced for horses, newer barn with power.

Karen Bennett

604-463-3000

Sid Alamo

Steve Anderson

Luke Ash

Chad August

John Bakker

Debra Bell

Karen Bennett

Dawn Bickle

Allan Carlson

Randy DeLair

Tracy DeLair

Randall Didiuk

Pat Drummond

Angela Dundas

Sarah Eales

Dianne Enns

Brian Fedyshen

Jeanie Fox

Chris Frandsen

Danny Gerbrandt

Lennie Gullmes

Rolf Gullmes

Ed Gurm

Gina Halinda

Don Hart

Ken Hemminger

Nicole Hunt

Dave Hyslop

Jim Isherwood

Nathan Isherwood

Nicole Jackson

Coleen Jennings

Al Knuttila

Joel Lycan

Brenda Lyster

Michelle Larose

Taryn McKay

Rick Medhurst

Jeremy McCarthy

Carla McColeman

Jessica Norman

Betty Olsen

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Don Pearce

Ray Pelto

Bob Quinnell

Jim Quinnell

Dave Rickard

Glenn Rogers

Luke Rogers

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Tyra Sauriol

Chase Shymkiw

Yolanta Siwinski

Tammy Sonne

Laurell Sware

Greg Swatske

Mary Spann

Trevor Tache

Ralph Tedford

Bob Terepocki

Joel Twaites

Amanda vandenBrink

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Vicky vanHerwaarden

Virginia Windover

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This view property features a bright kitchen, dining room, living room, family room. plus 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms on the main floor. The basement has an office/games room, a large 2 bedroom suite with separate entrance, and shared laundry. Hot water tank was upgraded to a Rinnai tank less hot water heater less than a year ago. Close to all levels of schools, entertainment, recreation center, shopping and West Coast Express. For more photos visit www.janehaddock.ca or scan the QR code.

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$

579,900

DESIGNED FOR TWO FAMILIES Just reduced $20k! Custom built home with quality finishing throughout 3000+ sqft. Main floor offers bright open kitchen & living areas + covered deck w/ mountain view. Superb 2 bed suite down is perfect for extended family. Quiet no thru road. Bonus: Triple garage & A/C.

$

538,800

LOOKS FANTASTIC FROM EVERY ANGLE Custom built home for original owners with solid floors, built in cabinets, covered balcony, RV parking and so many special features. It shows incredibly well inside and out. Big landscaped yard is like a park! Secondary suite down!

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$684,900 HORSE LOVERS DELIGHT A piece of Heaven! Very attractive and nearly square 2 acre parcel w/ gentle Southern slope & equestrian trails at your doorstep. Fenced & crossed fenced with barn and triple garage/workshop.

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$

262,500

FOXBOROUGH HILLS NEAR WCE One of the few & hard to find biggest units in the development with highest unit entitlement. 3 big beds up and open living & dining areas on main w/ galley kitchen. New laminate floors installed on main floor included. Seller wants quick sale so price is below comparables.

$398,800 DESIGNED FOR TWO FAMILIES Just reduced $20k! Custom built home with quality finishing throughout 3000+ sqft. Main floor offers bright open kitchen & living areas + covered deck w/ mountain view. Superb 2 bed suite down is perfect for extended family. Quiet no thru road. Bonus: Triple garage & A/C.

$

358,800

HOT NEW LISTING! Hurry on this one. Over 1/4 acre lot with gorgeous private back yard, 12x 30 shop and RV parking. The 1250 sqft rancher w/ 3 beds & 2 baths shows great w/ tile & laminate floors. Secluded yet close to town center!

$

WEST SIDE CUL DE SAC & GREENBELT Gorgeous duplex with huge yard and no maintenance fees! This home shows great, needs nothing and is located on one of the quietest streets in town. Easy parking and the greenbelt is amazing!

Must be seen!

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237,800

FULL RENO AND TOP FLOOR Easy to view this large 2 bed + 2 full bath condo in Edgeford Manor and it is worth seeing! Big bright open plan with all new interior renovation. Large balcony gets the morning sun. In suite storage + 2 great parking spots. This is one of Pitt’s best! Immediate possession offered.

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$542,500

HOT NEW LISTING! Just about to hit MLS. Be the first because this one will sell. Gorgeous full bsmt home with 2 bed suite. Almost 3000 sqft total. All new kitchen up w/ maple cabinets, granite & stainless steel. Shows fantastic on excellent no thru road.

$

244,900

MAPLE RIDGE BEST-BUY Upscale River Gardens with views of the Fraser and just steps away from W/C Express. Quality building and super fully renovated 2 bed 2 full bath unit that is clean as a whistle! Oversize covered balcony w/ views for year round enjoyment. Turn-key and immediate

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‘Pre-planning saves you ... headaches in the end’

Tech tips for new homeowners With the ever-growing amount of available home technology, buyers need to keep an eye on the trends as well as their future plans.

“Pre-planning saves you money and headaches in the end,” says Lee Rente of Encore Security and Automation.

He suggests that homeowners think about what they will eventually want.

Everything from cameras to speakers will need to have a wire somewhere.

The first tip Rente gives buyers is to make sure the house is pre-wired for sound, security, television and Internet.

“Making sure a wire is where it needs to be will save you a lot of money in the end,” he says, since having to go in and

wire a house once the drywall is up will force the installer to cut holes in walls and ceilings to run the wire through.

If you’re planning to mount a television, Rente recommends you look at the construction of your home first.

“It is very difficult to hang a TV on steel studding,” he says. “It doesn’t really support weight well.”

Instead, he tells homeowners to look for a piece of wood between the studs and behind the drywall.

The advice he gives homeowners is to share. “Always tell the tradespeople your ideas,” he says, adding that it will help both parties on their journey to creating the perfect home.

On the bottom floor, all of the units have single-car garages except for B-plan homes, which come with tandem garages. Homes with singlecar garages include finished basement spaces with a bedroom and bathroom.

For your guests, pathways crisscrossing the development will link

visitor parking with each building.

Brady says these walking spaces add a sense of community to Pier 16.

“It feels like you’re walking up to a home, not a number,” she says.

Homes at Pier 16 start at $369,900.

For more information, visit www. pier16.ca or call 604-542-1616.

Making a satisfying whole

South Surrey gets classy at Woodbridge’s Pier 16

by Colin Oswin

Step up into class at Pier 16.

The project, from developer Woodbridge Homes, features 41 threeand four-bedroom townhomes right in the heart of South Surrey.

Touring the show home, it becomes clear how many small choices in the finishings add up to a satisfying whole.

Where many developments opt for intricate, colourful and showy tile backsplashes in the kitchen, Pier 16 offers a relatively simple pattern with larger, plain tiles that remind the viewer of exposed brick. It provides an air of confidence, like someone who knows they don’t need to show off.

Sales manager Trina Brady says this approach has made Pier 16 popular among younger and older buyers alike.

“It’s very classy and simple; you can dress it up with add-ons,” she says. “It leaves it as a blank slate for the buyer to fill.”

You get this sense from the whole kitchen: the quartz countertops are a little thicker than usual and the undermount sink is a little deeper than usual. It adds up to a satisfying package.

The main floor kitchen/dining room/ living room has an open concept layout, and it flows well from one setting to the next. Brady says she encountered a bit of skepticism when describing the L-shaped kitchen, but that quickly dissipated when they saw the room in person. That’s because the kitchen L remains unobtrusive even as it stretches into the middle of the space.

“The design here really makes it feel like a large island and not a barrier,” Brady says.

Every home includes nine-foot ceilings, and you will get tons of light coming in from the generously sized windows.

Heading upstairs, you’ll find the same big, bright windows in all of the bedrooms along with a good amount of closet space.

A huge deck flows out from the master bedroom and over the driveway.

It spans the entire width of the house while extending out by eight feet, which provides lots of outdoor space for relaxing as well as shelter for your car.

The master ensuite comes with a marble countertop, his-and-hers sinks and an oversize glass shower.

The shower is big without becoming obtrusive and taking over the bathroom. Brady says the glass walls on the shower kept the space wide open.

“To have it all see-through takes away barriers that would otherwise obstruct views where a normal wall would be,” she says.

“

It feels like you’re walking up to a home, not a number,” says sales manager Trina Brady.

Submitted photos

Kitchens at Pier 16, above, are built in an open concept layout that flows into the living and dining areas, top. With nine-foot ceilings and chic laminate flooring, the homes are modern and elegant, and include thoughtful details such as quartz countertops, stainless-steel appliances and plenty of natural light from the large windows.

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Mayors target efficiency, not new cash Caucus issues call for new deal with federal, provincial governments

by J eff Nage l Black Press B.C. mayors are demanding a new deal with senior governments to address the growing financial squeeze on their cities, but they deny they have their hands out for any new streams of cash.

Instead, they emerged last Friday from the first B.C. Mayors Caucus in Penticton with a list of priorities they want addressed, from recognition of the rising pressure on cities to provide more service – often due to government downloading – to the need for more consistent and predictable long-term delivery of federal and provincial grants.

“We’re not asking for new money,” Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts said. “We’re saying let’s use existing resources more efficiently and effectively.”

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That may mean persuading the province or federal government to allocate more of what they collect in taxes to the cities, preferably through long-term agreements.

Too often, Watts said, cities have stepped up to cover services that have been downloaded by Ottawa or Victoria without receiving any contributions.

Social service delivery is a particular mess, she said, adding there’s some duplication in what’s provided by both cities and senior governments, and service gaps in other areas.

Surrey has faced higher costs helping immigrants integrate.

Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan said cities have also been pressed by the province to help provide social housing, usually by contributing land.

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Cities have enough money to provide core services, Corrigan added.

“The problem is we’re obligated to take on so many other duties in trying to make our communities livable and safe.”

The manifesto released by 86 mayors does include some references to funding.

It says government downloading of services must be accompanied by a sustainable revenue source.

It also demands B.C.’s new Auditor General for Local Government probe not just the value for money in city budgets, but also examine the question of government downloading.

“We’re saying that’s fine, fly at it,” Watts said of the municipal auditor, which many cities opposed last year.

“But you need to expand the mandate and look at the impact that downloading has had on municipal budgets.”

Watts said illogical government rules like inflexible requirements that projects include a green component – resulting in bike lanes sometimes being created in the north regardless of need – can waste money.

Also sought is an ongoing round table with the premier to discuss policy changes affecting cities, as well as another one that also includes federal representatives to discuss the need to replace aging civic infrastructure.

It’s not the first forum where cities have sought change – calls for a new deal have been a recurring feature of civic gatherings for years.

Despite the lack of traction, Watts said she’s optimistic reform can happen.

Watts is on the B.C. Mayors’ Caucus steering committee, along with counterparts from Port Coquitlam, Victoria, Smithers, Fort St. John, Cranbrook, Prince Rupert, Prince George and Penticton.

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ommunity Calendar lists events in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows. Notices are free to local non-profit groups courtesy of The News. Drop off details to 22328 119 Ave., fax to 604-463-4741 or e-mail events@mapleridgenews. com at least a week before the event. Include a contact name and number. (No submissions by phone.) Listings appear as space permits. For guaranteed publication, ask our classified department at 604-467-1122 about non-profit rates.

Friday, May 25 • Time to Tell is an Immigrant Services Society of B.C. workshop designed to help immigrants learn about their community and about Canadian society. The program takes place at 10 a.m. at the Maple Ridge Public Library.

To register, or for more information, call the library at 604-467-7417.

• Hominum Fraser Valley is an informal discussion and

support group to help gay, bi-sexual and questioning men with the challenges of being married, separated or single.

The group meets at 7:30 p.m.

For information and meeting location, call Art 604-462-9813 or Don 604-329-9760.

• Laity View Elementary is holding their Midway in May Carnival from 4 to 7:30 p.m., 21023 123 Ave, Maple Ridge.

This year’s carnival promises to be the biggest yet. Come check out all the activities, games and rides. Free admission. For more information, visit www. laityevents.com • Cystic fibrosis fundraiser at Samuel Robertson Technical Secondary School, 5 to 6:30 p.m. Art 9 and 10 students at SRT will be raising awareness and funds for life-saving CF research with a Mexican-style dinner and piñata silent auction. For more information, email Nayi Rincon nrincon@ sd42.ca.

Saturday, May 26

• Ridge Canoe and Kayak Club is holding an open house from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Whonnock Lake, 27871 113th Avenue, Maple Ridge. RCKC will be offering free canoeing, kayaking and dragon boat paddling. Highly experienced club members will be there to give a helping hand for all those who come out to paddle.

For more information, call 604-462-8596.

• The HIVE Neighbourhood Centre at Eric Langton is hosting its fifth annual Free Children’s Clothing Exchange from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Come out and enjoy free snacks and coffee and a chat with old and new friends. This event is open to all residents of Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows area.

• Maple Ridge Museum comes to the Haney Farmers Market with a Blast from the Past. Member only specials at Nature & Living and Big Feast. Gourmet Grannies will be talking about rhubarb. Jeff Huggins performs. The children

will be making worm farms and a bird garland. Memorial Peace Park on 224th Street from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. www. haneyfarmersmarket.org • Alouette Elementary is holding a garage sale and bottle drive fundraiser from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., 12483 Grace Street, Maple Ridge.

Proceeds will help pay for the annual Grade 7 camping trip.

For information, email nlb73@ hotmail.com.

• The Maple Ridge Better Breathers garage sale will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Proceeds go toward a scholarship fund for respiratory therapists. Corner of 203rd Street and 124B Avenue (20382 124B Street).

• Ridge Meadows Hospice Society Thrift Store is holding a second Anniversary Celebration. Barbecue by donation starts at 11 a.m., hot dogs and refreshments.

Celebration cake as well as 50 per cent off store-wide sale, located at No. 3 12011 224th

Street. Call 604-463-7722 for info.

Sunday, May 27 • The Great Strides Walk for cystic fibrosis takes place at 10 a.m. at the Pitt Meadows dike at the corner of Harris and Fraser Way. There will be fun for the whole family with refreshments, face painting and prizes. Come out and support those with cystic fibrosis and help further advancement in research and treatments.

• Maple Ridge Choral Society Choir presents its spring concert, a wonderful collection of songs and harmony. Enjoy a pleasant afternoon and stay for refreshments. St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 12145 Laity Street, Maple Ridge, at 3 p.m.

For information call Dennis at 604-465-8038 or Jerry at 604-463-0760. Admission $10.

• The Maple Ridge Better Breathers garage sale will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Proceeds go toward a scholarship fund for respiratory therapists.

Corner of 203rd Street and 124B Avenue (20382 124B Street).

• Hafla is the Ridge. A

unique evening of all shades and textures of Middle Eastern Dance or more popularly known as Belly Dance. Kim Pechet and her dance troupe Albi al Wadi (Heart of the Valley) will host the event which features special dancers from all over the Lower Mainland.

Doors open 6:15 p.m., show at 7 p.m. Cost: $5 (kids under 12, free) and a non-perishable food item for donation. This event is held at The Eagles Hall, 23461 Fern Crescent, Maple Ridge. Fundraiser for the Maple Ridge Food Bank and Cythera House.

Tuesday, May 29 • Join the Ridge Meadows Autism Information and Support Group at 11641 224th Street, Maple Ridge, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Speaker this month is Marianne Garrison, of the Provincial Outreach Program for Autism and Related Disabilities, who will be available to talk about how she supports the staff who work with our children within the school system. For more info, or to RSVP, please contact

Tracy Hewgill at 604-467-8000 or tracy.hewgill@rmacl.org Wednesday, May 30 • Calling all Jedi. Come to the Maple Ridge Public Library for Star Wars Craft Extravaganza at 3:30 p.m. Here is a chance to show off your appreciation of Star Wars and have fun.

For Grades 4 and up. Please register at the second floor information desk. For more information, please call the Maple Ridge Public Library at 604-467-7417.

• Friends in Need Food Bank is holding their annual general meeting at 7 p.m., at No. 8 22726 Dewdney Trunk Road, Maple Ridge.

• Ridge Meadows Hospitality Forum, 1 to 3:30 p.m., South Bonson Community Centre, 10931 Barnston View Road, Pitt Meadows. Hosted

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Maple Ridge’s James Clark overcomes kidney condition to win conference title

by R o b e r t M a n g e l s d o r f staff reporter

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t was a race Maple Ridge’s James Clark wasn’t supposed be in, let alone win.

Last month, the University of Idaho middle distance runner and Thomas Haney secondary grad was forced out of action due to worsening chronic pain in his kidneys.

The problem first arose two years ago, when Clark suffered acute kidney failure following a race in California.

“That evening I had a lot of back pain, and it kept getting worse,” he says.

Doctors took out his appendix, but had no definitive answers for Clark as to what was wrong with him. One theory was rhabdomyolysis, a condition where the body rapidly breaks down, damaged muscle cells, flooding the kidneys with harmful myoglobin protein.

All Clark knew was that his season was ruined.

In time, the pain lessened, and Clark returned to the track with a medical “redshirt,” allowing him an extra year of eligibility in the NCAA. But after a race in April, the pain returned, forcing Clark back into hospital.

He was just coming off gold- and bronze-medal per-

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Maple Ridge’s James Clark (centre) of the University of Idaho Vandals lunges over the finish line to win the 800-metre race at the WAC Outdoor Track championships earlier this month in Moscow, Idaho.

Clark’s performance helped the Vandals men’s track team clinch a conference title at the meet. formances at the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) NCAA Division 1 Indoor Track Championships in February, helping the University of Idaho Vandals men’s track team to its first-ever team win at the competition.

With the WAC Outdoor Track championships on the horizon in May, Clark says he was looking forward to helping the Vandals vie for their first team win in 10 years at that competition.

“It’s frustrating not knowing what’s going on,” he says.

“All I wanted to do was run, but I couldn’t.”

Now facing weeks of bed rest, Clark says he nearly gave up on the rest of his track season.

But after two weeks of bed rest, Clark began to improve, and the pain began to subside. Suddenly, the WAC Outdoor Track championships, which the Vandals were hosting in their new $2 million track stadium, didn’t seem out of the question.

Clark was still in no shape to train, so he could only

walk to stay in shape.

Then, on May 9, just two days before the meet, doctors cleared Clark to run. He had just enough time to squeeze in a single hard workout before the competition.

A serious injury, one that he might not recover from, was a very real possibility.

“There was a lot of trepidation going into the race,” says Clark. “But I knew we had a good shot [at the conference title], so we needed everyone to perform.

“I just wanted to do what I

could.”

In his preliminary 800-metre race on May 11, Clark hung back in the middle of the pack, taking it easy so as not to tax his kidneys. He cruised to a third-place finish, but that was enough to get him through to the finals later that day.

“I was pretty nervous going into the finals,” he says.

“My plan was to let everyone do the work, and wait until the final 100 metres to make my move.”

So Clark hung back, just as he had in the prelims. He slotted in behind the race leader, and let him block the wind. Clark kept pace, and as the leading pack rounded the final corner.

Clark made his move, surging to the front of the pack, while three other runners kept pace, each making moves of their own.

The finish line loomed and Clark, cheered on by the roaring hometown crowd and his teammates, made a final lunge.

“I had no idea if I had won or not,” he says. “It seemed like they [were reviewing the finish] forever.”

When the decision finally came down, it was Clark who was awarded the win, and the crucial 10 points for his team.

His margin of victory was just three one-thousandths of a second over Louisiana Tech’s Alwayne Green. The race is believed to be the closest in conference history, with the top four runners finishing within 0.11 seconds.

“I was blown away that it was that close,” says Clark.

Clark’s gutsy performance helped buoy the Vandals track team as they headed into their last events, says his coach Wayne Phibbs.

“He’s been through so much, and I think anyone else would have quit by now,” he says. “It was only a couple days ago that we decided it was okay for him to run and the text I got from him was, ‘I want to score some points for the team.’”

“Nobody deserves that victory more than James Clark.”

“Nobody deserves that victory more than James Clark.”

Wayne Phibbs, University of Idaho track coach His teammates went on to register win after win, and as the Vandals prepared for the final event of the meet – the 4X400-metre relay – they got word that they had clinched the championship.

“Our guys kept winning and kept racking up those points,” says Clark. “I’m just happy I could contribute.”

Clark’s track season is over now, but thanks to his medical redshirt, he still has one more year of eligibility in the NCAA. This off-season he hopes to find some answers to the problem in his kidneys that has plagued him.

“This was my last race for while, but I’m hoping to be back healthy next season,” he says. sports@mapleridgenews.com

Junior Flames take silver at Challenge Cup spring tournament contributed The 2000 Junior Flames earned silver at the 20th annual Challenge Cup over the long weekend, falling 3-2 to the North Shore Vipers in the peewee minor Division 2 championship final Monday at Planet Ice in Coquitlam.

Beset by penalties, the Flames battled back from 2-0 and 3-1 deficits and threatened to tie the score

until the dying seconds.

Jakob Mainhout and Josh Walls scored for the Flames in the final, while Damian Richards had an assist. Evan Allen was a standout in net.

The Flames, a spring hockey team consisting of players from Maple Ridge, Pitt Meadows and Port Coquitlam, downed the previously undefeated Metropolitans 4-1 in the semifinals. Walls had two

goals in that victory, while Keenan Rea collected two assists.

The Flames opened the Challenge Cup – which features teams from novice to midget, with boys and girls divisions – with a 9-2 win Friday over the Pro4 Panthers. Taylor Lewis had three goals and an assist for the Flames, while Richard had two goals and an assist.

The Flames then fell 5-4 in a shootout to the 2K Chiefs before down-

ing the Calgary Riggers by the same score Saturday. Lewis and Ryan Berg each scored twice in the latter.

Mainhout had the only goal of the game as the Flames edged the Riggers 1-0 in the quarter-finals on Sunday. Allen had the shutout.

Lewis led the team with seven goals and three assists in the tournament. Richard had four goals and three assists. Walls had five

goals, including two shorthanded, and an assist. Mainhout and Matteo Gagno both had three goals and three assists.

Other members of the team include Jaden Rutland, Alexis Kahlert, Nik Pederson, Cam Gjaltema, Ryan Kang, Sean McClosky, Nick Thompson, Justin Cloete and Jeffrey Sunshine.

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For those with genetic anomalies like flat feet, high arches, and knee and hip alignment problems, shoes can offer much needed corrective support.

And for those who are interested in going barefoot, you should realize that your feet CANADIAN POWER & SAIL SQUADRONS have adapted to wearing shoes for many years and won’t change overMay 29, June 5 & June 12 night. Going headlong into barefoot running Watch for the Boating Course on September 11th may be a recipe for causing an injury in the and the Boat Maintenance Course in January 2013. short-term. It would be wise to spend quite a For more information and registration, call: while to allow the foot to accommodate slowly.

Ross 604-467-0462 Also realize that much or Lorena 604-463-9258 of your work day will still demand that you wear shoes, whether it’s in an office setting, in your car or on a construction site, people will still wear shoes for a large portion of the day.

Unfortunately at this moment, much of the enthusiasm for barefoot running has been anecdotal with no substantive evidence for one RYAN JONES of Marv Jones Honda method being better for and Fund Run presenting sponsor, performance or injury is ready to run for health care. prevention. We await more research.

For more information on how you can get involved, please visit us Kerry Senchyna holds online at www.rmhfoundation.com a bachelor of science deor call Laura Butler at 604.466.6958 gree in kinesiology and is owner of West Coast Kinesiology in Maple Ridge (westcoastkinesiology.com).

ver the period of time that we evolved into homo sapiens and walked and ran on the African savannah, and for the majority of the time since then, we have been either shoe-less or used very thin-soled shoes, such as moccasins.

And in some areas of the world, people continue to walk and run without shoes.

There has been a growing movement in the running community for a number of years that is endorsing minimalist running, which advocates either barefoot running or using very thin soled shoes.

This movement began about 50 years ago with Olympic marathon wins by barefoot runners, but only more recently has it been gaining momentum.

The claim is that barefoot running is more

natural and may reduce the number of injuries runners get over the long-haul.

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Is one method better than the other?

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Barefoot runners land at the mid-foot or forefoot as opposed to shoed runners, who land at the heel and roll through to the forefoot for push-off.

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Lower Mainland Minor Lacrosse Association Regular season standings % GF GA 1.000 17 7 1.000 11 7 1.000 7 5 .000 0 0 .000 5 7 .000 7 11 .000 7 17

B.C. Intermediate Lacrosse League Intermediate A men’s lacrosse standings Team Richmond Roadrunners New West Salmonbellies Maple Ridge Burrards Langley Thunder Coquitlam Adanacs Victoria Shamrocks Burnaby Lakers Delta Islanders Port Coquitlam Saints Nanaimo Timbermen

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Baseball B.C. Minor Baseball Association Regular Season Standings Bantam AAA Team Cloverdale Black Spurs Vancouver Mounties Abbotsford Tri-City Ridge Meadows Victoria Red Eagles Richmond Victoria Black Eagles Nanaimo Kamloops White Rock Aldergrove Cloverdale Red Spurs North Island Cowichan Valley

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GF 60 35 33 31 35 35 33 29 22 16

GA 19 17 20 21 31 25 43 40 61 52

GP 10 7 7 7 8 5 9 6 9 6

W 6 5 5 4 3 3 3 2 2 0

L 3 1 2 2 3 2 6 2 7 5

T 1 1 0 1 2 0 0 2 0 1

Pts 13 11 10 9 8 6 6 6 4 1

GF 49 28 28 24 29 24 39 24 18 17

GA 35 18 18 20 25 20 50 21 43 30

GP 10 10 9 9 9 7 8

W 9 6 5 4 3 1 0

L 0 3 3 5 5 5 7

T 1 1 1 0 1 1 1

Pts 19 13 11 8 7 3 1

GF 41 51 40 36 40 19 16

GA 17 40 36 24 47 43 36

Bantam girls Team New Westminster 1 Port Coquitlam Ridge Meadows Burnaby New Westminster 2 Coquitlam 1 Coquitlam 2 Langley Port Moody Semiahmoo

GP 7 8 6 6 7 6 6 7 4 7

W 5 5 5 4 4 3 2 1 0 0

L 1 2 1 1 2 3 2 6 4 7

T 1 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0

Pts 11 11 10 9 9 6 6 2 0 0

GF 49 45 46 36 58 34 31 14 4 13

GA 18 28 18 13 35 27 28 55 26 82

Peewee girls Team Ridge Meadows New Westminster 2 Port Coquitlam 2 Coquitlam 1 New Westminster 1 Burnaby Coquitlam 2 Port Coquitlam 1 Langley Semiahmoo Port Moody

GP 8 10 9 10 9 9 8 8 5 8 8

W 8 7 6 5 4 4 2 2 2 1 0

L 0 2 3 3 3 5 4 5 3 6 7

T 0 1 0 2 2 0 2 1 0 1 1

Pts 16 15 12 12 10 8 6 5 4 3 1

GF 78 77 61 58 42 50 30 48 14 30 16

GA 41 43 47 57 31 38 31 59 26 61 70

Junior girls Team New Westminster 1 New Westminster 2 Delta Coquitlam 2 Nanaimo Coquitlam 1 Ridge Meadows Port Coquitlam Richmond Burnaby Midget girls Team New Westminster 1 Port Coquitlam Burnaby Ridge Meadows New Westminster 2 Coquitlam Port Moody

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