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B.C.’s transportation ministry is ensuring Golden Ears Bridge users have an easy ride over the Port Mann Bridge by combining the tolling technology. All you need is a decal, available online from TReO (https://www.treo.ca/ tolls-and-fees/how-do-i-save-money/) and you can get the discount $1.50 rate for the Port Mann for the first year. That decal will also work on the Golden Ears Bridge, ensuring motorists will pay the same $2.95 they’re getting with their transponders. “If you have that decal, you get the best rate,” Debbie Parhar of TransLink said Wednesday. That decal will also make it easy to get your money – by automatically charging your credit card, or pulling it out of your bank account. see Tolls, p10
Janessa Munz is planning a protest walk against a proposed bylaw in Maple Ridge that would penalize pit bull owners. see story, p8.
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A Crown prosecutor took extra steps to protect photographs of a teenage girl taken during an alleged sexual assault at a Pitt Meadows rave by asking defence to pledge that the evidence would be returned at the end of a trial. Wendy van Tongeren Har-
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graphs may be stolen if they were given to Warrington’s lawyer, Marvin Stern. “We all know that people have cars broken into … that’s the Crown’s concern,” van Tongeren Harvey said, although Stern assured her the images would not be viewed by anyone other than himself, his co-counsel and kept in his office. Van Tongeren Harvey and Stern eventually reached an agreement for Stern to sign an undertaking, promising to return the photographs to a RCMP officer on Oct. 5.
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The allegations against Warrington stem from a party held on a farm at 12993 Harris Rd. on Sept. 10, 2010. He is the only adult still facing charges in connection with the rave. A charge of sexual assault laid against another young man was stayed last February after Crown found the evidence did not provide a substantial likelihood of conviction. Although Warrington was at the party billed as “Another Night in Bangkok,” he did not witness the alleged sex assault. see Rave, p12
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