Maple Ridge News, August 21, 2013

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Students: Get real. p6

Maple Ridge creeks ‘wildlife highways.’ p9

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Summer Games Smyth wins gold. p23

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Gunfire victim sues Leah Hadden-Watts hit by a bullet in gangland shooting by M on i sh a M ar ti n s staff reporter

Len Carr gets Dream Weaver ready for any fishery openings this year. While sockeye numbers are low, the pinks look promising.

A Maple Ridge woman who was injured in a shoot-out that killed a notorious B.C. gang leader is suing the men charged with his murder. Leah Hadden-Watts filed a civil suit against Jujhar Singh Khun-Khun, Michael Kerry Jones and Jason Thomas McBride in Kelowna Supreme Court last week, two years after Red Scorpion kingpin Johnathan Bacon was gunned down outside the Delta Grand Okanagan Hotel, Aug. 14, 2011. According to the lawsuit, HaddenWatts was staying at the hotel with friend Lyndsey Black, and three “acquaintances” including Bacon, Hells Angel Larry Hadden-Watts Amero, and Independent Soldier James Riach. Police allege Bacon, Amero and Riach were in Kelowna that weekend as members of a recently formed criminal alliance known as the Wolf Pack. Hadden-Watts says she did not know the men were involved in gangrelated activities. Hadden-Watts is the niece of Mike “Spike” Hadden, who runs Haney Hawgs, a motorcycle shop in Hammond. Hadden is a full-patch member of the Hells Angels Haney chapter. The lawsuit alleges Khun Khun, Jones and McBride found out that their rivals were staying at the hotel and travelled there with “one or more loaded firearms and a murderous intent.”

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Low salmon numbers keep nets out of the Fraser Fishing should be ‘fantastic’ but high water temperatures stressing fish, and Fisheries being cautious by Nei l Corbe tt staff reporter

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hey would rather be out on the Fraser River chasing sockeye, but instead local commercial and sport fishermen alike were engaged in their second-favourite pastime Tuesday afternoon – cursing Fisheries and Oceans Canada. “I haven’t fished this cycle since 1997,” groused Len Carr from the deck of his commercial fishing boat Dream Weaver, which is docked at Kanaka Landing in Maple Ridge. “The Quesnels used to be the biggest run in

the Fraser River system. Now it’s a missed opportunity. For the last three cycles we’ve tried to build this run up,” he added. “This should be fantastic fishing.” Instead, all fishermen – commercial, sport and aboriginal – have been told “hands off.” The estimated run size is discouragingly low, and Fisheries biologists have estimated up to 70 per cent of the spawners could die on their way upriver due to high water temperature, which is up 3.3 C. To take stress off the sockeye, the Pacific Salmon Commission has scaled back test fishing, and cut off all sports angling for salmon on the Lower Fraser River. The estimated size of the run was boosted Friday, as some sockeye are arriving later than anticipated in the waters around Vancouver Island. The commission now estimates the main summer run of sockeye at 2.3 million fish, up from two million. See Sockeye, p5

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Boat has to be kept spic and span at Kanaka Landing.

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