Maple Ridge News, July 13, 2012

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Along the Fraser A plan to protect salmon habitat. p6

Hydrangeas about to steal the show. p25

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Sports Not the type to slow down. p39

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Bear hit by car likely OK Last seen limping into greenbelt by Tamarack Lane by M o n i s h a M a r t i n s staff reporter

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Head first A boy rides down the Alouette River on an inner tube near Hot Rocks in Maple Ridge on Thursday.

A bear hit by a car in Maple Ridge on Wednesday has not been found, but is most likely recovering from the encounter. The bruin darted in front of Susan Kirkconnell’s black BMW while crossing Lougheed Highway near Tamarack Lane around noon. “All of a sudden there was a black bear. I hadn’t seen it climb over the median,” Kirkconnell said as she surveyed the damage while waiting for a tow truck near the Maple Ridge Hyundai dealership. “It was a brief encounter with a bear. The fire trucks came and they are on the lookout for him because a bear that’s injured is dangerous.” The bear damaged the front passenger side of the car and dented a back door, leaving it undrivable. See Bear, p3

Wynnyk Albion property goes to ALC Can’t apply again for five years if rejected by R o b e r t M a n g e l s d o r f staff reporter Maple Ridge council went against a staff recommendation Tuesday by voting to send on an application to remove 41 acres of land in the Albion Flats from the Agricultural Land Reserve. Doing so could prevent

commercial development on the property for at least five years. The hay fields north of 105th Avenue are owned by Steve and John Wynnyk, and have been earmarked for strip-mall type retail development, as well as business offices, in the District of Maple Ridge’s Albion Flats draft concept plan. Council voted to forward the application to the Agricultural Land Commission, despite many admitting the proposal was weak and would likely

get turned down. Should the ALC deny the Wynnyk’s application, there would be a five-year ban on resubmitting, shutting down any chance for commercial development on the property for the near future. Coun Cheryl Ashlie, the lone dissenting vote against sending the application to the ALC, said the application provided little in the way of agricultural benefit for Maple Ridge, and should not have been sent to the ALC.

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The application argues the property is poor farmland due to drainage issues, and to offset the loss of agricultural land, proposes moving topsoil from the site to a farm in Mission. Ashlie said she would have preferred to have seen a swap of agricultural land included in the application, with 41 acres elsewhere being entered into the ALR, in exchange for the exclusion of the property north of 105th Ave. See Albion, p17

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