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‘Birthday party for a princess’ Friends and family celebrate life of Amanda todd

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nowflakes flickered on the walls of the Red Robinson theatre Sunday as friends, family and strangers – moved by the story of a Port Coquitlam teen pushed to the brink by bullies – bid her farewell.

Affectionately nicknamed “Princess Snowflake” by her mom, Amanda Todd left a message to the world in a video she posted on YouTube weeks before she took her own life in October at the age of 15.

The heartbreaking video, that’s since gone viral, documented years of torment she endured as the target of bullies online and at school.

She was a snowflake because every snowflake is different and unique.

“I have lost my daughter, a bright, strong, unique young woman,” Carol Todd, Amanda’s mother, said as she choked back tears while addressing Friends of Amanda Todd recall stories of her during a celebration of the late teen’s life at the Red Robinson Theatre in Coquitlam on Sunday. the packed theatre. see Amanda, p11 see a slideshow of the service @ mapleridgenews.com.

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Growth area for medical grows Cities can’t restrict access to medical marijuana, but they can say where it should go and maybe profit from it

by Phil M elnyc h u k staff reporter

Medical marijuana is here to stay and Maple Ridge can’t do much about it, except to say it should go on farmland and not in residential neighourhoods.

A staff report says staff and a lawyer should write up such a

bylaw, an idea that was sent to a future council meeting Monday for full discussion.

District planner Diana Hall told council that Maple Ridge can’t restrict medical marijuana production for personal use, but it can regulate the commercial production of medical marijuana by requiring that it go in specific zones, in this case, farmland.

Medical marijuana grow ops are permitted within the Agricultural Land Reserve, Hall told council.

And to keep nearby neighbours happy, the report suggests pot production face the same restrictions as mushroom barns or pig sties, which means grow op buildings would have to be 60 metres away from the front lot line and 30 metres from rear lot lines.

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Instead, the district wants the medical grow business to take place on farmland, in buildings built for the purpose. That in turn could broaden Maple Ridge’s agricultural potential.

Requiring the medical marijuana to be considered as a farm operation, in purpose-built greenhouses, could also have a positive effect by making those facilities available for other crops.

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Council getting tough on old buildings

By Phil Melnychuk staff reporter

Could fine owners up to $2,400 for fire inspection

by Phil M elnyc h u k staff reporter

Council is about to get heavy with owners of dilapidated buildings, hitting them with a fee of up to $2,400 each time an old structure requires a fire department inspection.

The fee is the maximum charged under an escalating structure that starts at $150 when a fire inspector has to check out an abandoned building.

Maple Ridge politicians looked over the Vacant and Abandoned Building Bylaw at its Monday committee meeting.

“This is designed to give us an effective tool to deal with vacant and derelict buildings in our community, in a timely and effective manner,” fire chief Dane Spence told council.

It tries to be fair to the owner of an old building, “But it clearly puts the onus for this problem right back where it belongs – on the person who owns the property.

“We’re trying to send a message that we shouldn’t be doing business this way.”

Time is a key part of the bylaw.

Property owners will no longer have months or years to decide what to do with a building – unless they want to keep paying pricey inspection fees.

That’s because owners will have only a month to apply for reductions in those inspection fees, which can be up to 75 per cent, by either applying for a demo or reno permit that shows they’re either tearing down the building or fixing it up.

If they wait beyond that, they’ll have to pay the full amount any time firefighters have to reinspect the building,

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Ghalib Rawji purchased Northumberland Court a few years ago and tore down the buildings, but the lot remains vacant. which means $150 for the first reinspection, $300 for the next, $600 for the third and $1,200 for the fourth.

After that, fees top out at $2,400 each time the fire department has to check on safety or security of a building. The fees match those charged for the false alarm bylaw.

Spence, though, said it’s impossible to keep people out of vacant buildings for long.

“If you keep it vacant, you’re subject to re-inspection fees,” he added.

“That changes that person’s business model. Maybe they were going to leave it there … but this can be a game changer for them. I do not anticipate it being there for years.”

The bylaw also allows the district to secure a building, then also charge the owner the cost of doing that.

Coun. Cheryl Ashlie wanted to know if the bylaw could require owners to use paint that matches the colour of the building, for the plywood sheets that are used to board up windows and if the district could require proper fencing, if the owner was going to wait more than 30 days before a decision on the building.

Some cities in Ontario require it, she added.

“I just really feel that we have to make sure that we’re going after folks who are purchasing properties and letting them sit.”

The bylaw complements the district’s Untidy, Unsightly Premises Bylaw, which requires owners to clean up junky yards or have the district do it, and add the costs to the property tax bill.

Coun. Al Hogarth questioned if it was fair to declare a building vacant or abandoned simultaneously, when the owner may simply be trying to find a tenant. He said it wouldn’t be fair to require a landlord to board up a building if it’s just vacant.

The bylaw, though, defines what is a vacant building – one that’s unsecured and unoccupied because it’s unfinished or run down or fire damaged – where fire could quickly spread.

Health Canada developing new grow standards Medical grows from front

The lengthy report notes that with the development of LED technology, grow lights can be placed closer to plants, reducing the need for space, making operations more compact.

And if composting of the plant waste takes place on site, trucks don’t have to haul it out. Pumping the carbon dioxide generated by the composting back into the greenhouses to spur plant growth, could further spare greenhouse gas generation.

Staff also gave council the option of allowing grow ops in industrial zones, but that drew no support.

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tions and proposed a resolution to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities asking Health Canada to disclose locations and amounts of medical marijuana produced.

Council, though, won’t vote on that motion until a future meeting.

Still, Morden liked the impending legislation, noting it doesn’t address the issue of illegal grow ops.

The report points out that medical marijuana access regulations were adopted in 2001 by the federal government, after the courts declared access to medical marijuana to be a basic right in 1997.

As of a year ago, 3,600 people in B.C. were authorized to have medical marijuana, while about 1,200 were licensed to grow medical marijuana, many of whom do so in their

homes.

But growing marijuana in homes can cause problems for both residents and neighbours, because of the amateur nature of electrical works needed to keep the grow lights on.

While bad wiring can cause fires, another possible explosive effect could result from using propanepowered carbon dioxide generators indoors. Carbon dioxide is used for speeding plant growth and the propane burners also generate carbon monoxide.

Marijuana grow operations could also attract raids and attacks by organized crime, looking to seize crops.

Health Canada doesn’t give police the locations or addresses of

medical grow ops, which can lead to confusion between those and illegal grows.

One aggravation for police is that medical marijuana producers don’t have to account for the actual yield of their crop, which could far exceed what their licence specifies, and receive no penalty for doing so. That’s resulted in organized crime approaching medical grow operators for any of the surpluses.

Police also point out that none of the medical grow operations are inspected, possibly leading to more electrical fires.

All that may change, however.

Health Canada is developing safety, product quality, security and reporting standards, which could be introduced in two years, Hall said.

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While Maple Ridge bylaws says it’s willing to look at the pictures of cats, owners of wild African ones are still hissing about the new law that could see their felines slapped behind bars, then put to death.

“It may sound dramatic, but we are living in fear,” said Rick White.

Under Maple Ridge’s new animal control bylaw, the SPCA has the right to enter homes and remove wild cats, for possible destruction, he said last week after council passed a bylaw that bans wild cats.

But cat lovers may have found a way to keep owners and the district happy.

They’re proposing the bylaw be changed to add serval cats as a permitted species providing they’ve been bred in captivity for three generations and they’re registered with The International Cat Association.

“What’s a domestic cat? That’s what we have to decide,” said White, a Maple Ridge resident.

Serval cat owners from around the Lower Mainland gathered at municipal hall on the weekend, demanding a change to the new law. They also collected a 600name petition for the cause.

Serval cats originate in Africa and are larger than domestic cats, but have been in Canada since the 1960s and have been domesticated for thousands of years, said White.

They’re also smarter than the usual house cat, which doesn’t like to take orders. White says serval cats can be put on a leash and walked.

“They listen. They sit.”

When they hiss, it’s not because they’re about to attack. Instead, hissing is a way of communicating, just like a regular cat meows.

Maple Ridge’s bylaw lists several wild species that are prohibited in Maple Ridge, such as wolves, elephants, armadillos, killer whales and chimpanzees.

It also prohibits any kind of wild cat, but allows domestic cats, including the savannah cat.

Savannah cats are cross breeds of serval and house cats and are considered domestic by The International Cat Association.

White said most other cities allow serval cats and that they’re not listed under the controlled alien species regulation, part of the Wildlife Act.

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Julianna Colonna moved into the apartment building nearly a month ago with her 13-month-old daughter Sophia and threemonth-old son Isaiah.

Colonna said she wasn’t told the building had a history of bed bugs when she went to rent her suite. When it came time to move in, she says the carpets weren’t cleaned and the unit was a mess.

“You could tell the place had just been abandoned,” she said.

Within days of moving in, she says her children began to get bug bites. At first, Julianna thought it might be chicken pox, but soon found bed bugs in the crevice of her mattress.

Julianna’s mom Julia is livid her daughter wasn’t warned about the bed bugs.

“Who in their right mind would rent this suite to a single mom with two kids,” she said.

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Kim Aeichele and her son Dakota, 16, have lived at the Sorrento for nine years. lived at the Sorrento Apartments for nine years with her 16-yearold son Dakota and says bed bugs showed up in her unit two months ago.

Aeichele is on disability for fibromyalgia and arthritis, and said she has had to sleep with her pants tucked into her socks to avoid bites.

“I haven’t had a good night’s sleep in two months,” she said.

She wants the building’s property management company, Amacon, to fumigate the building from top to

bottom.

“They fumigated all the units around me, so the bed bugs had to go somewhere, so they came here,” she said.

“The last two months have been hell.”

David Sutherland, vice-president of residential properties for Amacon, which manages the Sorrento Apartments, as well as the Sunrise Apartments next door, said his company has spent more than $30,000 to spray the buildings in recent months.

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both buildings like a plague,” he said of the bed bugs.

Sutherland believed recent eradication efforts had eliminated the pest from the buildings, and was unaware of the current bed bug issues.

“We will be distributing a notice to tenants asking them if they have any bed bug issues, and will send out pest control if there’s a problem,” he said. “If this is still an issue, we’ll take care of it.”

Sutherland blames the bed bug problem in the building on lowincome residents who have grabbed used or discarded furniture from off the street and elsewhere in the community, and brought it into their units.

Sutherland said the company has also spent $2,500 on a metal cage to protect the building’s garbage bin, to prevent people from grabbing infested furniture.

“It’s in our best interest to make sure there’s no bed bugs in our buildings,” he said. “No one wants to rent in an apartment with bed bugs.”

Serrina Green, a single mother with two kids living in the Sorrento Apartments, said her unit is bed bug-free at the moment, but is worried it could become infested.

“We can’t afford to replace all our belongings,” she said.

While some residents in the building want the District of Maple Ridge to step in, bylaws manager Liz Holitzki said the city’s building maintenance bylaws do not cover bed bugs.

“The bylaw refers only to the structure of the building, not the cleanliness or condition,” she said.

Bed bugs range in size from near microscopic to the head of a pin, and can live and breed in the smallest of crevices. see Bugs, p5

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Land sale could net SD No. 42 millions

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A currently unused parcel of land owned by the Maple Ridge PittMeadows School District could net the local district millions if sold, and potentially help fund the construction of a new elementary school in Albion.

The 3.8-hectare site is located along Bonson Road, near the corner of Airport Way, and was bought by school district in 2001 to be the future site of a middle school.

More than 10 years later, the school isn’t needed, and the lot sits vacant.

The district’s parcel of land is located next to a 4.65-hectare parcel of land sold by the City of Pitt Meadows last month to the Onni development group for $12.25 million.

That site is designated for residential development in the city’s official community plan and will be developed for medium density housing similar in feel to nearby Osprey Village.

While the district’s property is currently zoned for institutional use, City of Pitt Meadows staff have said in the past it would be open to rezoning the land for residential development.

Secretary treasurer Flavia Coughlan said the school district currently has no plans to sell the lot.

However, that possibility will be explored under the district’s recently-launched facility

and property review.

The review will determine the future uses for every single school, facility, and property owned by the school district, and will likely take up to a year to complete.

“It’s a major undertaking,” said Coughlan of the review.

Should the review conclude the lot should be sold, the district would still need approval from the provincial Ministry of Education, which paid for the acquisition of the land.

“For years the provincial government had the stance where they didn’t want school districts to dispose of properties, so they could save them for future use,” said Coughlan. “But we’ve heard property disposal may be back on their radar.”

Coughlan said she had no idea how long it would take to get ministerial approval to sell the site, should the district decide to do so.

Coughlan said the facilities review will look at the future need for a school in the area, adding that selling the property could create problems for the school district down the road.

“We don’t have the kids in that area right now, but with the Onni development, that might change,” she said.

Given the district’s parcel of land would likely be used for residential development if sold, its sale would result in even more schoolaged kids coming into the neighbourhood, and more potential need for an elementary school there.

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Any furniture that has been infested with bed bugs needs to sealed and disposed of properly to prevent any further spread, according to Peter Steinfort, owner of Care Pest and Wildlife Control.

Bed bugs like environmental conditions similar to humans, especially dark, humid areas, and can be found just about anywhere where there are people.

They are nocturnal and attracted to body heat and exhaled carbon dioxide.

Tell-tale signs of bed bugs are dark brown or black fecal staining on mattresses, blood staining on sheets, and dead bed bugs themselves.

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Thermal remediation has proven to be particularly effective, and involves no chemicals. With this method, an apartment is sealed and heaters placed throughout to heat the apartment past the bed bugs’ thermal kill point of 50 C.

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Coughlan said such one-time funding would be well-suited to help fund a major capital project, such as the construction of a new school in Albion.

“But that’s all very hypothetical,” she said.

The new elementary school, the site for which the district has already purchased, would likely cost upwards of $17 million, Coughlan said, so the sale of the Pitt Meadows property likely wouldn’t cover all the costs.

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Now Albion is the district’s most overcrowded school, and reopening Thornhill is one option the district no longer has.

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Toll upheavals The new Port Mann Bridge will be tolled, starting Saturday, Dec. 8.

This should serve as a great incentive for those who have yet to register with TrEO, the arm of the provincial government overseeing the tolling program. Those who register by Nov. 30 will receive 20 free trips over the tolled bridge, and will pay halfprice tolls for the first year. This is a good reason to register, as it will take some of the sting out of the tolls.

It is also fair, as the entire highway improvement project will not be complete when the tolls go into effect.

One other benefit of registering with TrEO is that there will no longer be a need for those who are registered to have transponders to cross Golden Ears Bridge at the lowest rate. The two tolling systems will be integrated.

It is also a very shrewd marketing strategy — something that was completely lacking when TransLink opened the Golden Ears Bridge, which remains mostly empty because of a lack of any incentive to use it.

While some experts have predicted that it will become busier when tolls begin on the Port Mann, that seems far-fetched. Why would any driver wish to pay more to cross that particular bridge, in a direction that isn’t the most optimal for the overall trip?

There are relatively few work destinations near the bridge on that side of the river for Langley and Surrey residents. While more people from Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows commute south of the river to work, the numbers aren’t vast.

The tolls on both bridges remain very unfair to residents who must regularly cross the river. There are no tolls on any other portion of the new highway, which is being almost completely rebuilt. There are no tolls on bridges or river crossings anywhere else in the Lower Mainland, or on the Sea-To-Sky highway.

Nor are there reasonable free alternatives to the two bridges. The Pattullo simply can’t handle much more traffic at peak times, and the Alex Fraser Bridge is also very crowded. Getting to it is a challenge during busy times.

Highway 99 may be an alternative for a few South Langley and South Surrey residents, but only if their final destination is somewhere close to the west side of Vancouver. The net result of bridge tolls may well be that people move closer to their jobs and avoid optional trips across the Fraser. This could provide a welcome boost for local businesses.

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Reality check on B.C. teen suicide VICTORIA – If you find Premier Christy Clark’s campaign against teen bullying to be superficial or even self-serving, I’ve got news for you. It’s potentially worse than that.

With the greatest respect to the family of Amanda Todd, B.C. Views her tragic case isn’t representative of teen Tom Fletcher suicide any more than it is typical of highschool bullying.

A clearer and more disturbing picture emerges from the latest report of B.C.’s Representative for Children and Youth, Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond. It’s a survey of 89 child protection cases from 2007 to 2010, where 15 kids killed themselves and the rest inflicted serious self-injury, in some cases repeatedly.

The word “bully” does not appear in the report. It speaks of domestic violence, physical and sexual abuse, addiction, and runaways targeted by street predators.

Three quarters of the kids were removed from their homes to protect them from their parents.

More than half are aboriginal.

Its key conclusion is that shifting traumatized and mentally ill teens from institutional care to foster homes isn’t working.

Earnest but inadequately trained foster parents and social workers can’t cope with kids who need diagnosis, treatment and supervision.

Without that, kids shuffled through

foster homes an average of a dozen times in three years, with little attachment to home or school.

Some were violent, no surprise given their formative years.

I asked Turpel-Lafond about the B.C. government’s recent focus on bullying.

She said it’s worthwhile, and there are parallels between Amanda’s case and more common teen suicides. One is isolation at moments of crisis.

“Say you’re a middle-class parent with a child who hasn’t come out of their bedroom in six months, or you have a boy in foster care who’s in his 14th home,” she said. “They both want to kill themselves, so what do you do?”

Ideally, you intervene and get them to a child psychologist. Parents or guardians who can’t afford $150 an hour can wait months for the Ministry of Children and Family Development to arrange it.

And in the meantime, our supposedly family-based foster care system sends them to school.

“I’m really worried about how [schoolbased anti-bullying programs] will affect the most vulnerable kids, because you start anonymously reporting someone as being a bully,” Turpel-Lafond said. “Yeah, we know they’re in the youth justice system. We know they’re troubled.

By the way, they’ve been sexually and physically abused, jumped through 30 foster homes, and now we want to label them again?”

This is not to suggest that the existing B.C. effort isn’t substantial. The ministry reports that there are 2,221 front-line staff positions, of which 219 are currently vacant. It’s notoriously difficult to recruit, train and keep child protection workers,

especially in remote communities.

Turpel-Lafond says her latest figures show the child and youth mental health service has 476 staff, with 21 vacancies and a government-wide hiring freeze.

And many of those are doing double duty as community service managers.

Those managers don’t even have reliable data on case loads, she said. They just know they’re overwhelmed and many of the kids aren’t being reached.

“This is not about political blame. I can trace this problem back to when Grace McCarthy was children’s minister, and the NDP did no better.”

This is not about political blame. I can trace this problem back to when Grace McCarthy was children’s minister, and the NDP did no better.

I’ve learned a bit about Riverview and Tranquille, asylums that were closed because of a modern belief that they were inhumane. At least they offered safety and medical care to even the most damaged people.

Right now, our enlightened, progressive society can’t even help most of the kids we know are at high risk.

Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com (tfletcher@blackpress.ca).

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The News/letters Pipelines could be key to our economy Editor, The News: Re: ‘Pipelines key to our economy’ (Letters, Nov. 14).

I would agree that pipelines could be a key to Canada’s future. The question is whether this is a positive or negative part of the economy, in particular B.C.’s economy.

Mr. Reicher claims that considering the large volume of product being transported, the industry safety record is extremely good. I guess a leak every 5.5 days is extremely good to people with vested interests and rose colour glasses. The fact is that even if you accept Mr. Reicher’s figure of 99.9985, the actual leakage will still be three or four times the present amount just by the increased volume.

Mr. Reacher acknowledges the fact that Canada and Steven Harper could do more to become less dependent on fossil fuels. Unfortunately, the sad reality is as long as we have Mr. Harper, this situation shall only get worse.

It is also clear that if it was up to oil companies, we would never make that move to clean energy.

I had to chuckle at Mr. Reicher’s use of Alberta Innovates – Technology Futures, an Alberta marketing corporation, to make his claim about how dilbit is no different than crude oil and causes no more pipeline breaks than conventional oil.

The reality is dilbit is a corrosive toxic acidic slurry with five to 10 times more sulphur and more chloride salts most resembling grinding compound than oil and which literally sandblasts pipe interiors. Ad it’s inconsistency is prone to developing bubbles and, subsequently, pressure fluctuations.

It’s very nature requires higher pressures and heat to get it to move at all.

The fact is Mr. Reicher you do not think about anything but money, the spills, pollution and subsequent environmental as well as economic damage and the costs that you are sometimes forced to pay are just the cost of doing business and are just passed on to the customer.

The utopian statement that pipeline operators would never jeopardize their safety record and reputation must have really made your nose grow.

Oil companies are in it for the money and they have shown repeatedly all over the world their indifference to the damage they do from Alaska, Brazil, Ecuador, Kalamazoo, Nigeria to Gulf of Mexico and BP, which just paid multi-billions in fines and faces 14 criminal charges – 11 felony counts, even charges of manslaughter.

Does that sound like people who care about the consequences of their actions?

Wayne Clark Maple Ridge

online comments We need more affordable housing • Cheryl Marie: Re: Downtown Maple Ridge is the place for help (mapleridgenews.com).

Downtown Maple Ridge has been getting worse and worse every year. I understand that the homeless need support in order to survive and I think the [District] of Maple Ridge has gone above and beyond to make that support available, but it seems to me that it’s not working, only attracting the homeless to our town because they know that those options are there to get them out of a tough spot. Giving someone a meal every now and again isn’t going to keep the streets any safer. We need actual rehabilitation programs and more affordable housing. Until that happens, these people get to eat for free and basically run our town. I’m more afraid to walk through the Zellers parking lot after hours than I am to walk through the Downtown Eastside.

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All are welcome at CEED Centre Editor, The News: Re: CEEDs of discontent (The News, Nov. 16).

One of the glories of Western Civilization was the tradition of the public meetings in the Agora of Athens, where people like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and many others met to exchange ideas with any persons, including slaves.

An echo of that tradition exists in the regular open meetings held at our local CEED centre.

The attendees range from Ph.D.’s, retired teachers, students, housewives, the homeless, candidates for municipal, provincial and federal office, rightists and leftists. All are welcome.

Topics discussed have ranged from the Tea Party Manifesto to home remedies.

The accepted code means that every opinion will be respected.

But the discussions have had a host of practical outcomes. A brief list includes ESL classes, art and choral activities, free

access to computers, organic and community gardening initiatives, providing facilities to a church group to serve meals, support for a food co-op, the food-bank, environmental issues, GETI and Girl Guides. Naturally, visitors and volunteers are always welcome.

Any undesirable activities in the open area next to the site are entirely beyond CEED’s wishes and control.

Charles Ellman Maple Ridge

Respect missing from written exchange Editor, The News: Re: Scrooge not a fan of Caring Place Letters, Sept. 28).

We are writing in regards to Sandy Macdougall’s characterization of those who use the Salvation Army’s Caring Place.

The members of the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows and Katzie Community Network are concerned that the polices and procedures regarding responsible conduct for those exchanging views in your newspaper would allow such language

to describe those living near or at the Caring Place.

We believe that if comments such as “human rubbish” and “human detritus” were used to describe another culture or nationality, it would have been allowed in the newspaper.

Those words were used by Mr. Macdougall to describe those living in poverty, homelessness, those struggling with addictions and mental health.

We are saddened, as a group, that such comments would appear in our

local newspaper.

We understand that it is the role of a newspaper to allow free thought, but we are also aware of your policy that states: “BCLocalnews.com encourages a free and open exchange of ideas in a climate of mutual respect.”

Respect was not extended to those who received the wrath of Mr. Macdougall’s published comments.

Candace Gordon, chair Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows and Katzie Community Network

‘We should be grateful for lovely town we live in’ Editor, The News: Re: Municipality encourages area ‘ghettoization (Letters, Nov. 16).

For too long now, many members of our community have written to your newspaper with complaints about the Caring Place.

Many of the letter writers seem to feel that it is because of the shelter that drug addicts and prostitutes have begun to appear in the downtown core.

I think it’s important for people to pause and think about the area of town under discussion. We’re talking about the centre of Maple Ridge, an area that includes

the majority of shops and services we depend on.

It also contains one gaming centre, with another soon to come, as well as a strip club.

Several letter writers seem to think that the Caring Place should be moved, but no one seems to care about the influence of gaming centres and strip cubs.

Also, where would they like the Caring Place to move – Ruskin, Silverdale, or some other inaccessible location for those who need it the most?

I’d also like to say that, like Sandy MacDougall, my husband and I live up the street from the Caring Place.

In fact, Mr. MacDougall is a neighbour of ours, as he lives just around the corner from our home.

Like the MacDougalls, we too, see people who might be homeless or who could be addicts. I don’t know, but I do know that I don’t feel threatened. Besides, no-one wears signs saying they’re associated with the Caring Place.

Several years ago, we experienced an extremely harsh cold snap. My husband and I decided to gather all the coats, jackets, pairs of socks, and other winter clothes we could find and leave them at the Caring Place as a dona-

tion.

When I entered the building, I met a really nice man at the door who helped me with my bundle.

I also saw a bright, airy room that looked clean and welcoming; it didn’t look at all like a place doing double duty as a brothel or crack house.

I hope people will soon stop blaming the Caring Place for the few ills our town is experiencing.

We are nothing like Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

I think we should be grateful for the lovely town we live in.

D. Aird Maple Ridge

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The City of Pitt Meadows announced Friday it will receive $242,750 from the federal Western Economic Diversification Canada program to help expand the recreation centre’s weight room, making it bigger, and more accessible. The City of Pitt Meadows will match the grant with $242,750 of it’s own to help fund the expansion.

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“If you want to get from a wheelchair onto one of the machines, you’ll be able to do that now,” said Cramb.

The expansion is much needed, he said, as the current weight room is undersized and overused.

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was built in 2001, we realized almost right away we were too small and too crowded,” Cramb said.

The weight room itself will be expanded into the space currently occupied by the Pitt Meadows Seniors’ Centre. The seniors’ centre will be moving into its new home on 190A Street, behind the recreation centre in the next few months.

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“Most of the money will be for new equipment.”

No date has been set for the start of construction, but Cramb said he expects renovations to get started early in the new year, and to be completed by the end of next summer.

“We have to time it so there’s as little disruption as possible,” he said.

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Griffin, 23, can spend a day studying in school, then completely forget everything the next day.

Or she can come to class in a fog, then a few days later have the whole lesson crystallize on the bus ride home from school.

Sometimes she struggles with verbal instruction, running into problems by trying to follow instructions literally.

Once her Grade 5 teacher told the class to put everything into their back packs. Griffin did, and put everything that was in her desk into her pack.

Another time her teacher told the class to “pick up the floor,” which she found confusing. “I take things literally.”

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Katrina Griffin, 23, talks about the challenges of living with FASD at the campaign lauch on Tuesday. thing, is also a challenge.

She also spends a lot of her time talking to doctors about what it’s like to cope, as a spokesperson for those who can’t do that.

“It’s my goal to create as much awareness as I can.”

Griffin provided the insights at a ceremony Tuesday in the Greg Moore Youth Centre marking Maple Ridge’s new business bylaw, which now requires all bars and restaurants serving booze to post

warning signs about the dangers of drinking while pregnant.

“No Safe Time. No Safe Amount,” the signs will say.

“I’m here,” it will say written across a woman’s pregnant tummy.

The campaign is an attempt at reducing the number of kids born with the preventable condition, caused by a mother drinking while pregnant.

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Griffin, who graduated from high school despite a teacher saying she’d never do so, has almost completed her training in early childhood education. One of her goals is to see the frequency of FASD diminish to the point that it becomes an unknown condition.

She’s also like the City of Richmond to adopt a bylaw similar to Maple Ridge’s.

Asked what single thing she’d like to see to combat FASD, and Griffin thinks for a bit.

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Many misconceptions about the condition still endure.

Some people still think that drinking in small amounts is less harmful to the baby either earlier or later in the pregnancy.

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There’s no safe amount,” said Pooley.

And alcohol, possibly because of its solubility in the human body, is the most dangerous to a baby, even more so than hard drugs.

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Amanda felt things so deeply: Pells Amanda from front

“Although she is gone from our physical world, she has left behind a larger-than-life message that has sparked the world and has made it open its eyes, its ears and its heart.”

The “Celebration of Life” featured singer Cole Armour, who performed a song called “You,” inspired by classmates who have been bullied.

“You’re amazing, you’re the one and only you, don’t change you ... “ sang 14-year-old Armour.

Nov. 27 would have been Amanda’s 16th birthday – the service, complete with cupcakes, was the big birthday party she would have wanted.

The teen, who grew up in Port Coquitlam and Maple Ridge, loved singing, could command the attention of a room full of people and often wore a memorable, mischievous grin on her face.

Her favourite teacher at Coquitlam’s Alternate Basic Education program (CABE) remembered Amanda as a girl with a big heart.

“I could see that some days were hard for Amanda,” said Leah Pells.

“No matter what was happening to her, she cared for all the students in the class, asking other students if they were OK and worrying when they didn’t show up for class.

She felt things so deeply, which was a blessing and a curse for her.”

Amanda wanted to leave a mark on the world and was determined to help others learn from her experience.

“I hope one day I can write a song about bullying so when kids are alone, staring out of the window crying, they can play my song and know that it’s not your fault and things will get better,” Amanda wrote.

Vancouver singersongwriter Elise Estrada closed the emotional celebration with her song

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Carol Todd greets guests at the ceremony.

Wonder Woman, dedicated to Amanda. Proceeds from the sale of the single will be donated to anti-bullying charities.

Amanda’s story has already inspired others. A letter from an 11-year-old girl, read during the service by a teacher, thanked Amanda for sharing her struggles with the world.

“You are the one who made me brave and I’m glad you did,” wrote the girl. “You showed me strength, courage, bravery and confidence, of being excited about getting to school and just pushing all that fear away for a while.”

Amanda’s best friends, cheer-leading coach,

teachers and neighbours promised to be ambassadors of love by spreading her anti-bullying message to the world.

Her Port Coquitlam neighbours hung up their Christmas lights early, turning them on Sunday after the celebration.

Bryan Durand, the Todds’ next door neighbour, said the houses in Douglas Terrace are also adorned with snowflakes.

Amanda’s father Norm recounted memories of a family vacation and how Amanda dragged him on the “biggest, baddest, scariest” ride during a trip to an amusement park. Life was always an adventure for her.

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“I’ve lost a big part of my heart that will never mend and always belong to Amanda,” he said. “Amanda has a new journey now that will be brighter and stronger and she will always be with us in so many other ways.”

Amanda’s family has created two funds with the Vancouver Foundation to support antibullying education, help young people struggling with mental health issues and support programs that help people with learning disabilities.

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‘Attempted break-and-enter’ riles Port Haney resident

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He’s had enough and for now at least, Tyler Ducharme says he can’t

take it anymore and he’s thinking about leaving Maple Ridge.

The day that Ducharme’s complaints about living next to the CEED Centre appeared in

the media, would-be thieves tried to break into his property on 117th Avenue.

He heard about the attempted break-andenter Thursday about

11 p.m. while out with friends when he got a call from the alarm company.

“They were certainly trying to get in,” Ducharme said Friday.

“You are crazy to live in Haney and not have a full alarm and a couple of dogs,” he said.

It’s not the first such attempt. About six years ago, thieves broke into

his house twice, in addition to four of five other attempted break-ins.

Ducharme said he regularly calls police as he deals with threats and petty crime.

Ridge Meadows RCMP helped a lot, he added.

“They’re very supportive. They answered our questions. They were there for us.”

But he doesn’t like the way the District of Maple Ridge is managing its lot next door, where the Community Education on Environment and Development Centre is located.

The CEED Centre Society owns the building, while the district owns the lot.

Last week, Ducharme presented council with

several questions, generally asking why homeless people are allowed to camp out on the lot.

He contends too much focus is on addressing social problems rather than simply managing the property.

“I don’t live my life constantly calling in problems when they’re not doing their job.”

According to Ridge Meadows RCMP, there was no sign of an attempted break in.

But Ducharme says the alarm was triggered by motion caused by someone trying to enter the garage.

Police also say there doesn’t appear to be “abnormal criminal activity” in the area. Since the notorious Northumberland Court was bulldozed last October 2011, there’s been a “marked drop” in crime in the area, say police.

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The car veered off the edge of the highway, where it clipped a guywire supporting a hydro pole.

The car rolled close to 20 metres down a hill before crashing into the office of the Pioneer Log Sort yard, eventually coming to rest upright on its wheels.

Despite extensive damage to the car, the driver managed to walk away from the crash.

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“I saw the guy walking around the yard and thought, he’s not supposed to be over there, so I went around to talk to him, and that’s when I saw the car and the damage to the office,” said Trepanier. “We were on the other side of the [railroad tracks] when [the crash] happened, so we didn’t hear it because of the machinery going.”

Trepanier said the driver walked away from the crash with just cuts and scrapes.

The car’s side curtain air bags deployed and the driver had been wearing a seat belt, said assistant fire chief Mark Smitton.

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New bridge over North Alouette River To be completed within a year

by Phil M elnyc h u k staff reporter

Suburbanites in distant Silver Valley will have an easier commute within a year as the district moves to fill another gap in the transportation network by building a new bridge.

The $4.6-million project will cross the North Alouette River on 232nd Street, removing a major roadblock to future widening of the road to the new neighhourhoods in north Maple Ridge.

Exactly when the entire road from Fern Crescent to Silver Valley will go to four lanes depends on

future traffic volumes and development along the street, which will pay for the road improvements, explained Maple Ridge engineer Dave Pollock.

Design work on the bridge is now underway, with final drawings ready by spring, after which it will be put to the tender process for contractor bids.

Pollock said the current wooden bridge is reaching the end of its life span. The new bridge will be concrete, expandable to four lanes, and similar to that which was recently built across the South Alouette River, and won’t have any piers in the river.

It will have a multi-use path on the east side so

horses can cross, sparing them having to walk in the river and minimizing impact on fish.

Before any work begins though, the district wants to hear what the neighbours think.

Public meetings will take place next spring to get their ideas on the four- or five- month construction period. The new bridge should be ready about a year from now.

Pollock said the quickest and cheapest way to build the bridge is to shut down the road and divert traffic to other routes.

“It’s largely a function of time and cost.”

However, a pedestrian crossing could be maintained during construction.

SUV escapes scrape with train A train clipped an SUV that was running around the crossing arms on 240th Street in Maple Ridge on Sunday.

The 2002 SUV was hit by a westbound train at the 240th Street crossing, south of Lougheed Highway, after the driver

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The oncoming train clipped the back end of the SUV, causing minor damage to the rear quar-

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When police and fire department arrived on scene, the driver and the vehicle were both gone.

Police tracked down the owner of the SUV and determined the vehicle

Work likely will start in July during a slow time during the fisheries cycle.

The project will build on the expansion and widening of 232nd Street that’s taken place between 124th and 128th avenues, along with the new bridge over the South Alouette River, completed a few years ago.

Pollock said 232nd Street will have bike lanes on both sides, but pointed out current engineering practice is to design a road that fits local demands and suits a variety of needs, including cyclists and pedestrians. The steep slope of 232nd Street leading up to Silver Valley is also a factor. hadn’t been stolen.

However, a police spokesperson said it’s not yet clear who was behind the wheel of the vehicle at the time of the crash.

Smitton said collisions at train crossings occur as frequently as once a day nationally, and are almost always the fault of the driver ignoring signals to stop or driving around barriers.

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The trick to deciphering streetscapes Looking B ac k by Val Patenaude

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he community archives have been most fortunate in recent days to receive a collection of photographs from members of the Dunning family.

W. Barry Piers was father to Margery Dunning, wife of Eric Dunning, who was editor and producer of the local Gazette newspaper.

Piers was manager for the Bank of Montreal, first in Port Haney (now the Billy Miner Pub) and later at 8th Street (now 224th) and Lougheed Highway.

He was an enthusiastic photographer and over the years, we have acquired many of his images.

Most photographic collections come to us with a mix of information. Sometimes we get a date or names of people included in an image.

Sometimes there is nothing at all, and unless we recognize a particular person or bit of landscape, we can’t even tell if the photo was taken in

Maple Ridge Museum

This photo likely shows Lougheed Highway from 224th Street, but when remains unknown.

Maple Ridge.

With today’s photo, there was never any doubt where it was taken. This is the Lougheed Highway, looking east from 8th Avenue [224th Street], probably from in front of the bank where Barry Piers worked. The question is when was it taken?

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The next building is a house. We have the story of that house because Judi Hubbard Hart has shared it with us. Art Hubbard, Judi’s father, moved his family from Vancouver in 1945 and purchased that house and a bare lot just west of 9th Avenue [225th], where the Dairy Queen is now located.

Aided by Ernie Adair and Stan Purdy, “Hubb Motors” was constructed on the bare lot and opened for business by December of that same year. As both the house and garage are in the picture, that raises the date to at least December 1945.

In 1948, wanting to expand his business, Art Hubbard sold the house that was on the property.

It was moved, divided in half and rebuilt nearby (just north of where the Langley Farm market is now) as two homes.

Hubbard then reno-

vated his building and added a car lot where the house had stood.

The picture had to be taken between December 1945 and mid-1948, when the house was moved.

According to Judi Hubbard Hart, when their family arrived in 1945, the property on the southeast corner of 9th Ave. and Lougheed Hwy. was owned by the Menzies family. Later it was sold and the building seen in the background – the Paradise Inn Café – was built by the MacPherson family.

It opened in December 1947.

Taking the entire streetscape into consideration, we can compile these clues and come up with the spring or summer of 1948 as the date of the picture.

There is still one interesting clue to be taken into account, though.

The cars parked along the side of the road each have a bumper stickersized sign on them reading “Maple Ridge Board of Trade.” It is unlikely that the men of the board of trade would mark their vehicles with signs just to attend a meeting, so a far more likely scenario is that this is the aftermath of a parade – the July 1 Dominion Day parade of 1948.

However, since that last bit is more speculative, the photo will remain dated to the spring or summer of 1948.

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A20 -- Wednesday, November 21, 2012 -- THE NEWS - www.mapleridgenews.com

Time is not on kittens’ side

By Magdalena Romanow

F

eline leukemia is a retrovirus that infects cats. It is deadly and contagious to other cats. Any cat owner who is familiar with this virus dreads it, and many shelters will automatically euthanize any cats that test positive for it.

It is a very complicated virus, and some cats who test positive can fight off the virus and test negative down the road. The re-test needs to be done in several weeks. Many shelters don’t have the facilities to isolate a cat while they wait to do a re-test, so in some cases potentially healthy cats are euthanized.

This summer, Katie’s Place received eight kittens from another shelter where they had tested positive for FeLV. The shelter did not have the facilities to isolate the kittens, nor did they want to euthanize eight healthy looking babies.

Katie’s Place was contacted and we offered to take them in with the hope that in six to eight weeks we would re-test and they would all test negative.

We converted one of our porches into an isolation pen and filled the space with beds, toys, litter boxes, and scratch posts.

Everything that eight beautiful, bouncy kittens could want.

Then we waited to see if the second test would be negative.

Although Katie’s Place has an area for FeLV cats where they can live out their lives, no one really wants to see any animal live in a shelter. While we do manage to find homes for some of our FeLV cats, the truth is the majority of them will call Katie’s Place their permanent home.

Feline leukemia is contagious to other cats. The virus is most persistent in saliva and nasal secretions, but can also be found in urine and feces. It can be transferred from one cat to another via a bite or mutual grooming and, rarely, through sharing a litter box and feeding dishes.

Although the virus does not survive long outside a cat’s body, cats who share a home with an infected feline are at a higher risk of contracting the disease.

Recent studies found that vaccines can be up to 98 per cent

effective in protecting an uninfected cat, but nothing is 100 per cent effective.

Sooner or later, FeLV will kill. Feline leukemia is a common cause of cancer, blood disorders, and leads to a state of immune deficiency that leaves the cat unable to protect itself against secondary infections.

There is no treatment or cure for FeLV. The best that one can do is to try and keep cats strong and healthy. Some cats only live a few months after they are infected while others live for many years. Kittens who contract the disease in utero, or at a very young age, succumb to the disease quicker than cats who contract the virus later on in life.

Six weeks came and went and we re-tested the kittens. They all tested positive again and their fate was sealed.

At this stage, they are healthy, happy, crazy teenagers who play, run and do all those silly things that only kittens do.

Chances are they will never see their second birthday. Two have found a permanent foster home that is willing to care for them for as long as they may have. Six of them remain at the shelter.

If you have no other feline companions, or a part of your house that you could spare for a year or two, please consider meeting our youngsters. You will not have to make a 20-year commitment. At best, they will be in your life for a couple of years. They will get sick and they will die. It will be painful, and you will shed tears.

If you take one or two of these kittens home, you won’t be doing it for yourself, you will be doing it strictly for them. You will be doing it so that they may know what a real home is, and what being loved really means.

And when they are gone, you will know that you did all you could and, if nothing else, these sweet little babies didn’t have to die in a shelter.

Magdalena Romanow is a volunteer at Katie’s Place,

an animal shelter in Maple Ridge.

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One of six kittens with feline leukemia who currently live at Katie’s Place in Maple Ridge.

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Get pet photos with Santa Proceeds benefit Katie’s Place

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Katie’s Place is doing Pet Photos with Santa at Bosley’s in Maple Ridge on Sunday, Nov. 25 and Sunday, Dec. 9.

Over the years this festive fundraiser has created warm memories for both the pet owners, as well as the volunteers.

The photos are done by donation and all the funds raised go directly to the care of animals and the Maple Ridge shelter.

The pet photos event is one of the shelter’s most successful fundraisers and has proven that, yes, there is a Santa.

Come to visit Santa Claus between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. with your BFF (Best Furry Friend).

Santa welcomes them all, from dogs to cats to hamsters to horses to lizards.

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The Nutcracker returns to ACT

Every year about his time the dancers of the Royal City Youth Ballet descend upon Maple Ridge to perform the Christmas classic, The Nutcracker. The Company currently holds the distinction of being the longest running seasonal ballet performance in Canada and for the past 24 years has attracted young dancers from various dance schools around the lower mainland. This year seven of those dancers hail from the Maple Ridge/ Pitt Meadows area and have been casted in supporting roles. Ruby Garrett plays a soldier, Alexandra Ayley is a horse rider while Ashley Donnelly is big mouse, Trepack and a maid. All of the dancers have been members of the company for two years or longer.

The Royal City Youth Ballet Company is a unique non-profit society dedicated to engaging young people and the arts. The Company’s focus is on building self esteem, discipline and other life skills. The children get to interact with professionals who act as their mentors and the end result is a very successful show which has with stood the test of time. But belonging to this prestigious arts company is not for the faint of heart. The dancers, who range from six years of age and up, enter ballet boot camp early in September. They rehearse long hours every weekend preparing for 21 shows which take place at seven theatres throughout the province.

• Royal City Youth Ballet’s The Nutcracker comes to the Maple Ridge ACT this Sunday, Nov. 25, with shows at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. For more information, visit www.theactmapleridge.org.

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Maple Ridge dancers Ruby Garrett (from left to right), Ashley Donnelly and Alexandra Ayley will be taking part in the Royal City Youth Ballet’s performance of The Nutcracker at the Maple Ridge ACT this Sunday.

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A comical take on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol comes to the Maple Ridge ACT, just in time for the holidays.

Monster Theatre’s performance features more than 50 characters, puppets, songs, dance numbers, and flying ghosts, all performed by just two actors.

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens was first published as a novella in 1843. It received instant success and critical acclaim. The story tells of mean-spirited, miserly old man, Ebenezer Scrooge’s ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the supernatural visits of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas

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Monster Theatre’s take on the Charles Dickens’ classic, A Christmas Carol, comes to the Maple Ridge ACT on Dec.1.

Past, Present, and Yet to Come.

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The lone remaining cast member, not wanting to disappoint the throngs of children with their moms and dads who have filled the theatre, agrees to help out.

Together, they take to the stage and perform the entire play themselves.

Monster Theatre previously brought MiniMasterpieces and The Shakespeare Show to the ACT with great success.

Their take on A Christmas Carol comes to the ACT on Dec. 1.

• For more information, or to purchase tickets, visit www.theactmapleridge.org. Tickets from $13, family fourpack for $45.

Fabric arts will be on display this weekend as the Whonnock Weavers and Spinners Guild will be hosting its 32nd annual open house this Sunday at the Whonnock Lake Centre from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Guild members have worked all year to produce one of a kind hand-spun, hand-woven, handknitted, dyed and felted crafts, just

in time for the Christmas shopping season.

There will be hand-woven blankets, capes, jackets, scarves, shawls, towels, rugs, and many other items for sale at the event, as well as felted pieces, such as bags, hats, cat toys, Christmas tree decorations, mittens, slippers, socks, and sweaters suitable to put under a lucky recipient’s tree.

There will be an abundance of skeins of handspun yarns in both

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Some of the guild members will be demonstrating spinning, carding, felting and basket weaving through out the day.

The guild also includes a number of expert basket weavers, who will also be selling their wares.

Several guest artists have joined the open house this year to offer woodwork, glass art, and pottery.

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Wednesday, Nov. 21 • Gluten Free/Celiac supNEWS port group meets at 22336 Dewdney Trunk Road in Maple Ridge. Learn more about the gluten free diet and get help with recipes, products and more. For more info call 604897-9525.

•Night Market at Willow Manor runs from 4 to 8 p.m. at 12275 224th Street Maple Ridge. Visit a variety of vendors and discover products and gifts.

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Sunday, Nov. 25 Christmas Candle Making runs from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Pitt

The Ridge Meadows Hospice Society presents “A Time to Remember.” This is a non-denominational, candle lit evening for the community to gather & remember a loved one that has died.

Meadows Museum, located at 12294 Harris Road. The event is part of the Museum Sundays series. Guests are invited to make tiny tapers and rolling beeswax and decorating them for the festive season. Museum Sundays are by donation. For more info email pittmeadowsmuseum@telus.net.

They are still looking for help on the day of the event to assist with set-up, activities and clean up. The volunteer orientation will be taking place from 6:307:30 in the Fraser Room at the Library. For more information on volunteering, please email us at volunteercoordinator@ mapleridgechristmas.ca.

Monday, Nov. 26 • The Pitt Polder Preservation Society will hold its AGM in the new Pitt Meadows library, 200-12099 Harris Road, Pitt Meadow at 6:45 p.m. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Sunday, Dec. 2 • The Haney Pioneer Village Co-op Craft Sale will take place at 11830 230th St. from 11 to 3 p.m. Table rentals are $4 and their will hotdogs and refreshments. Call 604463-7517 to reserve a table.

• Deck The Halls Ornament Making runs to 4 p.m. at the Pitt Meadows Museum, located at 12294 Harris Road. The event is part of the Museum Sundays series. Guests are invited to help decorate the museum for Christmas and as well as making ornaments for our tree and for yourself. Museum Sundays are by donation. For more info email pittmeadowsmuseum@ telus.net.

Tuesday, Nov. 27 • Celtic Music Sessions with Nigel Tucker and Friends in the lobby of the ACT, 224th Street in Maple Ridge.

This is a free event, please come out and enjoy Celtic music, bring your instruments and voices and join in, or just come along and enjoy yourself. Coffee, wine, and beer available.

•The Ridge Meadows Autism Information and Support Group welcomes Perry Bateson, of Yuen’s Family Martial Arts, to provide information on bully-proofing your special needs child from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Ridge Meadows Association for Community Living. Perry will speak from 7 to 8 p.m. For more information or to RSVP, please contact Tracy.Hewgill@rmacl.org or call 604-467-8700 ext. 119.

•The Santa Claus Parade in Maple Ridge needs volunteers.

Tuesday, Dec. 4 • The Holy Wow Poets’ Christmas Show starts at 7 p.m. at The Act Theatre, 11944 Haney Place. There will be a Christmas poetry recital. All poets and spectators are welcome.

Please bring a non-perishable item for the B.C. Food Bank.

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Christmas is often a difficult time of the year and many bereaved individuals find comfort with this night that provides special recognition of their loss.

We invite you to join us, for “A Time to Remember” On Wednesday, December 5th at 7:00 p.m.

St. George’s Anglican Church, 23500 Dewdney Trunk Road, Maple Ridge

✓ Are you a new mom or a mother-to-be?

✓ Are you a Business interested in Welcome Wagon Programs?

Friday, Nov. 23 • The Ridge Meadows Thrift Store will be having a 50 per cent off sale from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 3-12011 224

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Thursday, Nov. 22 • The Ridge Meadows Thrift Store will be having a 50 per cent off sale from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 3-12011 224 St., located behind Haney Sewing and Sound.

•Afraid of speaking in public? Join ToastMasters.

It has something to offer for everyone - from gaining confidence to helping you think on your feet to improving on your speaking skills. Toastmasters meets Blue Heron ToastMasters meets from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Pitt Meadows City Hall. For more info contact Andrew Thompson 604-460-0339.

St., located behind Haney Sewing and Sound.

Saturday, Nov. 24 • A free workshop on financial planning and wealth preservation will be held at the Pitt Meadows Library meeting room from 2 to 3:30 p.m. The event is being hosted by Paul King of Freedom 55 Financial. To register call 604-807-1227 or email paul. king@f55f.com.

• Be an angel and support the Friends in Need Food Bank at Maple Meadows Chiropractic from 9 a.m. to noon. Bring 10 or more items for the food bank in exchange for a chiropractic adjustment.

Call 604-465-1711 to schedule an appointment.

• The Maple Ridge Christmas Festival is hosting its first ever Ladies Shopping Fundraiser from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Mple Ridge Senior’s Centre, 12150 224th St. Proceeds from the event will go towards the Christmas in the Park and Santa Clause Parade. Visit mapleridgechristmas.ca for more info.

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• The Immigrant Services Society of B.C. is hosting an open house from 1 to 3 p.m. at 320 – 22470 Dewdney Trunk Road. Ceremony starts at 1:30 pm. RSVP to eysa.alvarez@ issbc.org or at 604-942-1777, ext. 1586.

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Tuesday, Dec. 11 • SPECC-tacular Productions Theatre Group Presents “Sleeping Beauty”, a Christmas Pantomime playing at the ACT until Dec. 15 at 7:30 p.m. On Dec. 15 a matinee will play at 1 p.m. as well as a 6 p.m. show. Tickets are available at The ACT , 11944 Haney Place in Maple Ridge.

Thursday, Dec. 13 • The Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows Chapter of HUB: Your Cycling Connection, meets in the Maple Ridge Library, Greenside room from 6:45 to 8:45 p.m. Drop by and learn more about what cycling means for the community of Maple Ridge and the area.

For more info email Jackie at jchow23708@yahoo.ca or go to www. rmcyclist.info.

• The SFU Philosophers’ Cafe meets at the Arts Centre and Theatre at 7 p.m., 11944 Haney Place. This month’s topic is Bad brain chemistry, genetic predisposition, personal choice?

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Glemnitz proves he belongs amongst elite Pitt Meadows field lacrosse standout overcomes injury to shine on U.S. stage

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irst impressions go a long way in forming opinions. For Riley Glemnitz of Pitt Meadows, a recent trip to Baltimore with the Burnaby Mountain Selects senor elite field lacrosse team, helped cement what NCAA coaches have noticed dating back two years.

Burnaby Mountain Selects head coach Brent Hoskins says the big mid-fielder made a name for himself since he joined the renowned program two years ago. But a knee injury knee injury in the summer of 2011 put a small cloud on the promising player’s future hopes.

But Hoskins says dedication to overcoming that adversity has allowed one of his best players to rebound and establish himself as a top high-school recruit in Canada.

“First and foremost, Riley is a fantastic athlete,” says Hoskins, who also serves as head coach at Simon Fraser University. “He’s a gifted, physical player who makes his presence felt up and down the field.”

Glemnitz recently competed at the Fall Lax Invitational Tournament, considered one of the top recruiting events hosted by Hall of Fame coach Dave Cottle.

The Baltimore coach has compiled a 279-115 record in 28 seasons at Loyola College and the University of Maryland. He ranks fifth all-time in career victories and is tied for first all-time with 22 NCAA tournament appearances.

Hoskins says Glemnitz’s strong performance at the tournament should land him a scholarship

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from an NCAA Division 1 team.

For Glemnitz, he says he’s just thankful to be given the opportunity to play with the Selects.

“It’s such an amazing opportunity to be able to play in those kind of tournaments,” says the senior at Pitt Meadows secondary.

“We have such great coaches and players. The team’s success is testament to their hard work. I have nothing but great things to say about them.”

Hoskins says he was confident Glemnitz would bounce back following his injury. Seeing him play such a complete game while in Baltimore should open doors for the Pitt Meadows native.

For his part, Glemnitz is ultimately looking for the right fit should the NCAA come knocking. While he has talked with some coaches, he says a good education and the right playing environment will be his deciding factor.

“It needs to be the right place if I’m going to spend the next four years there,” says Glemnitz. It would be nice to play somewhere where we could compete for a national championship.”

Competing against some of Maryland’s top club teams, the Glemnitz and the Selects competed in front of more than 100 NCAA college coaches and recruiters at the event. The team finished with an impressive overall record of 4-2.

“Riley is such a great kid,” says Hoskins. “He’s the type of athlete that will be able to step up and contribute to whatever program he goes to.”

In six games in Baltimore, the Selects’ senior elite team out-scored their opponents by a margin of 4227, posting an undefeated record of 3-0 on the first day of competition.

They kept the ball rolling day two with an opening game win, before dropping their final two contests.

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Most coaches lose their mind after dropping a game 8-1. But Ridge Meadow Flames bench boss Jamie Fiset will chalk Thursday night’s beat down at the hands of the Richmond Sockeyes as “just one of those games.”

Fiset said while his

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Riley Glemnitz helps lead the offence for the Burnaby Mountain Selects as they compete in a tournament in Baltimore. proved he belonged against the e top high school players in Canada and the U.S. The exceptional two-way player says that great coaching lead to his

team continues to struggle to find the back of the net, there’s plenty of time to turn things around.

“We just couldn’t get anything to go early,” said Fiset. “We had a few bad breaks where we couldn’t get the bounces to go our way.”

Fiset said with two new players in the fold, adding forwards Vitalik Morozov of

Port Moody and Kurt Thrussell of the North Delta Devils late last week, combined with mixing up his lines, has led to some growing pains for his club.

“You could tell from the drop of the puck that we didn’t look like we were on the same page. But this is the time of year to work out those kinks.”

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team’s overall success. He says it’s evident in how they were able to not only compete, but dominate against far more established U.S. programs that have been together

out shot 51-20 by the Sockeyes Thursday night and went were held scoreless on seven power play opportunities.

While the offense continued its struggles Friday night at home to the Mission City Outlaws, it was able to tighten up it defensive play, skating to a 1-1 draw. However, after going 0-for-8 with the

far longer than the Selects.

“As a team, we’ve accomplished so much in our short time together. A lot of that credit goes to Brent and the rest of the coaches,” he says.

man-advantage, the coach admitted his team needs to finish when the opportunities arise.

“I told our guys I don’t want to be a onedimensional team.

We’re going to get a few more practices under our belt and try to create some chemistry with our new line combinations.”

Fiset said a pair of

road games against divisional rivalries this weekend should be a good test of where his team stands.

• The Flames are in Abbotsford Friday night to take on the Pilots at the MSA Arena starting at 7:30 p.m.

The Flames travel to Port Moody Saturday to take on the Panthers at the Port Moody Arena starting at 7:45 p.m.

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Playing in the rain Justin Cloete of the Ridge Meadows Burrards attempts to get by Cameron Way of the Port Coquitlam Saints during a U-12 Tier 1A game at Westview secondary during a downpour Sunday.

Playoff positions set contributed

Four dominant rinks secured the top positions as playoff berths were determined in Haney Master’s Curling League play at Golden Ears Curling Club.

Terry Gregory, Jack Stadel, Lorne Fletcher and Bill Hanula’s rinks start playoffs Wednesday. Gregory’s rink, led the Fall session from start to finish, posting a 10-1-1 re-

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They finished four points ahead of the second-place Stadel rink Fletcher’s rink edged out Bill Hanula’s foursome for third overall.

Hanula’s rink started slow posting a 2-3 record but finished strong, securing fourth spot.

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He’s known for the past two years where his future lied, but the reality of signing his university letter of intent really hit home for one of the nation’s top junior golfers.

Pitt Meadow’s Kevin Kwon officially sighed his letter of intent to play at the University of Washington in the Fall of 2013, and the humble senior from Maple Ridge Secondary School said he was surprised by the emotion of the event.

“I’ve know for a while now that I was going to do it, but when it became official it was kind of sudden,” said Kwon. “Once I signed those papers it really hit home.”

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Kwon said he plans a busy summer of tournaments leading up to the start of the season, including another run at the Canadian national title. Shortly after signing with Washington Kwon was named as one of six players to the Canadian national men’s development team. This will be Kwon’s second season with the program and he said he’s thankful for the chance.

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In loving memory our wife, mother & grandmother It wasn’t long ago, just a little while ago, since I last seen your gentle smile; I can’t believe the time came so soon, I watched your breathing become so shallow, everyone begins to wallow, beings filling with sorrow, as salty tears slip down their cheeks, as we watch you fall into eternal sleep. Everything seems to grow distant, as we witness this fate, we grow weak from this defeat, things won’t be the same, it will be just another day, eventually everything will be okay.. I hope you are better where ever you may rest now..

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She will be remembered always by her husband and soul mate Blair, her children Erin (Carson), Lee (Amii) and Shanin.

Her grandchildren Makenna, Emiree and Sophee, her sisters, brother, many nieces and nephews and her extended family.

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It is with great sadness, we announce that Neil passed away peacefully on November 17th surrounded by his family in New Westminster, BC after a short illness, at the age of 92. Neil was born in Glasgow Montana, grew up in North Park Alberta. He married his sweetheart Ruth during the war and moved to the lower mainland of British Columbia after the war to be with her.

They raised four daughters in Maple Ridge while serving a long and distinguished career with the Federal Corrections Service. He was predeceased by his father Lornts Agle, mother Gudrun Agle, brother Birger Agle, sister in law Vivien Agle, daughter Lorraine Agle and grandson Micheal Cizik. Neil (Dad, Grandpa, and Great grandpa) will be deeply missed by his wife of 68 years Ruth, his daughters Susan (Micheal), Beverly (Donald) and Maxine (Vince), his son in law Wayne, grandchildren Maria (Anthony), Bradley (Charlene),Angela, Chad (Brianna) and Carla (Ryan) and his great grandchildren Cassandra, Tyler, Dale, Taylor, Brandon, Carter, Kaylee, Kyle, Jordan and Nathan. Neil & Ruth were some of the first tenants to move into the Maple Ridge ECRA building in 1999 and Neil was proud to be involved with the strata council over the last 13 years. He looked forward to his Saturday Morning Men’s Group. A celebration of life will be held at the Ridge Meadows Seniors Activity Centre: 12150 224 Street on Tuesday November 27th between 2 - 5pm.

Expressions of sympathy can be made at www.gardenhill.ca

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ACCIDENT in Maple Ridge Immediately after the collision that occurred between a Silver 2013 Hyundai Elantra and another small car on the evening of Sunday October 28th, at approximately 6:50pm in the south-bound left-turn lane of 280th street at the corner of Lougheed Hwy and 280th Street, Maple Ridge, someone indicated they had seen the collision and had left before I could get her contact information. If she or anyone witnessing or having any information regarding the collision could please contact me at (604) 996-8716 and ask for Hiede it would be much appreciated, as the other driver fled the accident scene.”

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604-463-7450 604-463-2236

TOP CA$H PAID TODAY For SCRAP VEHICLES!

PITT MEADOWS: 2 - 3 bdrm co-op T/H $1030/mo - $1134/mo. Shares req’d. Close to WCE, schools & shopping. No subsidy available.

19225 119th Ave. For more info & to book an appt. call 604-465-1938

SKI RACK for sale. Thule 91725 Universal Flat Top. 6 Carrier. Universal mounting for 6 pairs skis/or 4 snowboards. Adaptable to most factory roof racks. $60. 604-3282837.

746

SCRAP CAR REMOVAL

SUITES, UPPER

741

22222 Lougheed Hwy., Maple Ridge Inquire in person between 9am - 3pm or

MAPLE RIDGE

ONLY

751

Call: Rick Medhurst, Royal LePage

Queen Anne Apts.

RECREATIONAL/SALE

PORT MOODY - HERITAGE MTN. Ravine Drive. 5 Bdrms + lrg office, 3-5 baths, 3000 sq.ft. on 2 floors, gorgeous city view from both floors, dble garage, ensuite with jacuzzi, spacious decks back and front, $2100. Avail Now. 604-725-4873

809

1 & 2 Bdrms $790/$890

845

PORT MOODY, Heritage Mtn, 2 Bdrm, large, w/view, + office space, 1300 sq.ft., insuite w/d, all appls. $1100. Avail Now. 604-725-4873.

WHONNOCK 3 bdrm. mfg. house, 5 appl., lge. deck. N/S N/P. Nov. 1. $1000 mo. 604-462-1005

Various downtown locations.

Avail. Now! Updated and well maintained. Various sizes 320sf.

- 2000sf. Starting at $495/month.

838

1996 22’ SLUMBER QUEEN 5th wheel. Interior like new, has to be seen to appreciate. New stereo, back up camera, new HD antenna, m/w, a/c. Includes hitch. $6,500.

604-625-7761 Aldergrove.

PORT COQ. Citadel Heights c/d/s.

1 bdrm suits 1, sep entry. NP/NS. Avail now. $700 incl hydro, cable, internet & lndry. 604-942-6259.

604-306-5752

OFFICE & RETAIL SPACE

AUTO FINANCING

PITT MEADOWS, 2/bdrm ground level suite. N/P, N/S. $900/mo incl util. Avail Dec 15. 778-859-7788

newly renovated 1 bedroom 1/2 duplex centrally located $450/mo cable inc pets negotiable,

MAPLE RIDGE

TRANSPORTATION

The Scrapper

“Ridge Meadows Inn”

OFFICE/RETAIL

810

NICE above ground 1 bdrm suite in quiet area. Dec 1st. Great kitch and gas fp. Insuite laundry. Walk out to covered patio. No pets or smokers pls. Ref req’d. $785 plus 20% of util.

Mike 604-805-2086

Beautiful, private back yard. $1149/mo + utils. Pets welcome.

MAPLE RIDGE

626

SUITES, LOWER

MAPLE RIDGE 20963 Lougheed Hwy.

1 Bedroom suites Avail

Maple Ridge 1 Bdrm $550/mo 2 Bdrm $625/mo incl’s hot water Certified Crime Free Building Mature adult oriented.

Close to uptown 604-463-4131 for appointment (9am-5pm)

750

TRANSPORTATION

MAPLE RIDGE W. 1Bdr g/lvl quiet area nr town, share w/d, immed. ns/np. $675 incl utils. 604-467-1183

2 Bdrm Rancher in the area of Gates Park.

2471 Welcher Ave

Building has been TOTALLY RENOVATED

MAPLE INN 11695 -224th St

HOMES FOR RENT

RENTALS

MAPLE RIDGE 12880 216 St., 4 bdrm. house, 6 appl., $1995 mo. + utils. (604)722-5609

11698 ~ 224th Street

604.418.1932

DUPLEXES/4PLEXES

Coquitlam 1/2 duplex 5 bdrm 2.5 baths carport NS/NP newly decorated Dec 1. $1800m. 604-939-9112

Certified Crime Free Multiple Housing

$650/mo. incl hot water NP

APARTMENT/CONDO

Maple Ridge Swan Court Apartments

Fraser View 2 Apartments

Coquitlam Center Co-op

633 MOBILE HOMES & PARKS

New SRI *1152 sq/ft Double wide $77,900. *14x70 Full gyproc single wide - loaded $66,900.

Repossessed mobile, manufactured & modulars. Chuck 604-830-1960.

Glenbrookhomes.net

706

Call 604-464-7548

LUXURY OCEAN FRONT CONDOS!

627

RENTALS

2010 VENZA: Like new, only 20,000 kms, fully loaded, automatic, 6 cylinder, dvd system. $22,800. 604-575-5555.

DEWDNEY & 230th, avail. immed., 1 BD, 800 sq.ft. $775/mo, util, cble, intrnt, wifi, shrd lndry, grnd lvl, lam. & carp, newer F/S, microwave, NO SMOKERS (unit & property), indoor cat ok, suits mature couple or single, owner up w/2 kids (6 & 9), 604466-9579 bfr 9:00p or 604-3070787 anytime.

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ONLINE AD: BC-wide reach! For one week!

MAPLE RIDGE, 216TH & Ridgeway, Reno’d 900 sf. lrg. bdrm. + den, F/bath. Laminate flrs. & tile. Sep. ent. Fenc’d yrd. Free wifi & cbl, w/d.

Pets ok. $750 +1/3utils. Avail on or bef Dec1. Ref req. 604-467-9459

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ONLINE AD: Local reach — until you cancel it!

Call 604.575-5555

MAPLE RIDGE 2 Bdrm ground level ste. Priv.entry/laundry, NS/NP $750 mo. incl util 604-463-1043

MAPLE RIDGE lge. 2 bdrm. grnd. level suite, incl. f/s, d/w, share ldry. $1050 mo. utils. incl. N/S N/P. Dec.1. Adult oriented 778-858-5256

12

Power Pack incluGeV

MAPLE Ridge, 207/Lougheed, grnd lvl 1 bdrm. Bright, spac, priv entry, shrd lndry, utils incl, gas f/p, lam flrs. Nr amens. NS/NP, no parties.

Dec 1/15. $775. Call Roelie 1-250726-6157, Sylvia 604-467-5691

MAPLE RIDGE East ~ avail Dec 1st 1 Bdrm ground level, util’s incl’d, 6 appl’s, N/S N/P refs req’d $775/mo 604-240-5679 or 604-315-7619

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HEROIC PRE-OWNED VALUE! Thank you, Super Dave!

2010 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited

2008 Hyundai Tiburon GTP

3.8L V6 auto, air, cruise, dual tops, trailer tow group. 59,841 kms. #NA0779

2.7L V6 manual, leather, air, tilt, cruise, pw/pl, power sunroof.

64,305 kms. #H5158

3.5L V6 auto, leather, air, tilt, cruise, antitheft, stability control.

59,422 kms. #M6127

WAS $28,985

WAS $17,597

WAS $29,995

$27,795*

$15,997*

$26,995*

2012 Ford Escape XLT

2006 Land Rover LR3

Brent Miscisco

2009 Ford Ranger Sport 4x4

3.0L V6 Flex Fuel auto, All Wheel Drive, keyless entry, pw/pl.

38,700 kms. #F4707

4.0L V6 auto, panoramic sunroof, prem leather, dual climate zone.

85,219 kms. #NA8970

4.0L V6, air, tilt, cruise, fog lights, new tires. 61,428 kms. #NA2044

WAS $24,995

WAS $23,885

WAS $15,795

$23,495*

$22,855*

$14,797*

2009 Chrysler Aspen Limited

Sean Elmont

2006 Mercedes-Benz SLK350

2008 Toyota Yaris RS

2009 Ford Focus SES Sedan

5.7L V8 auto, 4x4 HEMI, leather, navigation, rear DVD, tow pkg.

79,700 kms. #C5798

1.5L auto, aluminum alloy wheels, tinted windows, pw/pl.

94,432 kms. #I6729

2.0L auto, premium leather, heated seats, power moonroof, alloys.

61,900 kms. #F4348

WAS $29,493

WAS $11,995

WAS $14,895

$28,493*

$10,395*

$12,875

Mike Jankowiak

Robbie Beaton

Adam Cunliffe

604 467 3401 23213 Lougheed Highway • mapleridgehyundai.com *Prices plus applicable taxes and fees. DL#7356

Brett Kinney

Dave Wyant

Julian DeVuono

Ross Burroughs

Bob Murdoch

Super Dave’s

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ALL WOMEN’S SWEATERS 30%

OFF

Women’s Denver Hayes Marled Yarn Holiday Funnel Neck Black, bordeaux, crown, blue, ponderosa. Sizes S–2XL Reg. $49.99

SALE $34.99

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SALE $34.99

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SALE $29.99

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SALE $29.99

C. Women’s Denver Hayes Contemporary Bootcut Butt-lifter Jeans with CURVE-TECH® Tummy Control Black, dark blue, indigo. Sizes 2–18.

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