Maple Ridge News, January 30, 2013

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B.C. Views New season for ‘School Wars’. p6

Salmon, other fish found in slough. p3

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Arts&life Ridge singer vies to be People’s Choice. p12

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Ridge, Pitt together in one riding Mission no longer part as electoral boundaries changed by Phi l M elnyc h u k staff reporter

Providing the parliamentarians approve it, Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge voters will belong to one riding under that name, in the next federal election in 2015. The new riding boundaries coincide with municipal ones, using the most common sense divisions, Pitt River in the west and 287th Street in the east. The change puts the riding population at about 94,000 people, about 10 per cent less than the target population for each riding of 104,763. After hearing from the public, the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission submitted its report redrawing the province’s federal electoral map and tabled it in the House of Commons on Monday. See Ridings, p8

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Unhappy trails Conny Lewis brushes Loona, a 15-year-old Appaloosa, for a ride with other members of the Mission and Haney Trail Riders, starting from the main corral in Golden Ears Provincial Park on Sunday. The groups want new corrals, claiming they are unsafe, in the park. A park management meeting is set for Thursday.

2nd guilty plea in rave case Also to a lesser charge of distributing obscene material by P hi l M e l nych uk staff reporter

Sports: Para-nordic competitor aiming high. See story, p13

The Pitt Meadows rave case is winding down after a guilty plea was entered two months ago and a sentencing hearing is to be held next week. Originally described by RCMP as a gang rape, the incident has concluded with two guilty pleas,

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one by a juvenile in 2011 to distributing obscene material, and more recently, a guilty plea by Dennis John Allen Warrington to the same charge, distributing obscene material. Warrington, who was 20 years old on Feb. 16, 2012, entered the plea Dec. 20. Warrington had been charged with possession and distribution of child pornography following a party dubbed “Another Night in Bangkok,” at a Pitt Meadows farm on Harris Road, Sept. 10, 2010. Although Warrington was at

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the party, he did not witness the alleged sex assault of a 16-yearold girl, which police at the time described as rape. But a teenaged boy, 16 at the time, took photographs of the sexual activity and sent them to his friends, who shared them with others, including Warrington. A day after the rave, the photographs were posted on Facebook, with a caption that wondered who the girl was. Warrington did not know the identify of the victim.

Distribution of obscene material is a lesser charge because there is no minimum sentence, unlike possession or distribution of child pornography, which carries a minimum six-month jail term. Crown prosecutor Wendy van Tongeren Harvey said a sentencing hearing will take place all day Feb. 6 in Port Coquitlam provincial court, where the victim will also give an impact statement. The child pornography charges against Warrington will be dropped at that time.

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