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Mud mask Jackson Pickell of Local Ride Racing in Maple Ridge competes in men’s Category 3 of Barry’s Roubaix, along the Kennedy Road dike, Sunday in Pitt Meadows. Results, p17.
A warrant has been issued for a young man wanted for a series of mail thefts in Pitt Meadows. Ridge Meadows RCMP named Brandon Russell Cumming-Hobson as a person of interest Friday Cumming-Hobson afternoon, alleging the 21-year-old is responsible for breaking into Canada Post mailboxes in the community. “We are very concerned about Brandon Cumming-Hobson having an arrest warrant, and believed to be in our community,” said Insp. Dave Fleugel. “We have ensured all of our officers are aware of this warrant, and have asked them to be diligent in getting him back into custody as soon as possible.” see Warrant, p14
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Environment Minister, Terry Lake announces upgrades to Golden Ears Park on Monday with MLA Marc Dalton.
Environment Minister Terry Lake was at Golden Ears Provincial Park on Monday morning to announce $500,000 for trail upgrades. Two Mondays prior, Premier Christy Clark visited the community, meeting with local business
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people. But Lake did not flinch at the suggestion that the high profile government attention to Maple Ridge might be seen as campaigning, coming just eight days before the election is officially called on April 16. “Government goes on until the writ drops,” he said. “We would be announcing this any time. We tell people what we’re doing, whether there’s an election or not.” “There have been funding announcements throughout the four years I have been here,” echoed
Maple Ridge-Mission MLA Marc Dalton. Speaking from a podium in the parking lot of the day use area, they told about 20 people assembled that the province’s parks receive approximately 20 million visits per year, and approximately 615,000 of those are to Golden Ears. The hiking trails at the park will be rehabilitated and repaired over the next three years, and some $150,000 will be spent replacing a bridge. “And thanks to Premier Clark, they don’t have to pay to use the
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day use facilities,” said Lake. Members of the Haney Horsemen and the Ridge Meadows Outdoor Club, who have blazed many of the parks trails, were on hand to hear the announcement. Bill Archibald, trail boss of the Haney Horsemen, estimates the club has cut about 55 km worth of trails in the park, and they are now maintained by the province. Dalton said the funding announcement followed one for a new observatory in Mission, at Fraser River Heritage Park. see Trails, p14
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