Along the Fraser Good deed keeping streams clean. p6
SFU berry bee biologist backs ban. p3
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Canada Day Ball hockey, 8-km run part of Pitt event. p22
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Dirt ride Kurt Hebel, 12, goes off a jump at the Albion bike skills park on Wednesday. The popular park is a work in progress, with donations to help it along. See story, p16.
The search continues for a woman who fell into a creek Monday evening in Golden Ears Provincial Park. The 23-year-old was with relatives on a tour of the popular park in east Maple Ridge. She was standing near a waterfall when she slipped and plunged in the rushing waters of Gold Creek around 4:15 p.m. Ridge Meadows RCMP said her family called 911 immediately after the accident, but the woman could not be located. She is believed to have drowned. Volunteers with Ridge Meadows Search and Rescue scoured the banks and fast-moving creek for the woman until 11:30 p.m. Monday. See Search, p10
School year ends, dispute continues Summer school classes remain undecided by Nei l Corbe tt staff reporter
Picketing teachers lined Lougheed Highway through much of Maple Ridge on Thursday morning – a line that stretched from 222nd Street to the junction of Dewdney Trunk Road. It was the last day of classes
were to have been in session in the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows school district. The teachers’ strike lopped off the last two weeks of the year. Maple Ridge Teachers’ Association president George Serra said the union wanted to make a strong public showing on the last day that all members would be on the picket lines. School may be out, but the acrimonious labour dispute between the B.C. Teachers’ Federation and the provincial government continues unabated.
Summer school may not be available this year. Education Minister Peter Fassbender asked teachers to end their strike to allow children to attend summer classes, but the union has said it will picket summer school sites, unless the strike ends by Monday. “It is unfortunate that the BCTF leadership decided to strike summer school,” Fassbender responded. “Their decision today will impact thousands of students and it will do little to bring the parties closer to agree-
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Teachers moved their picket line to Lougheed Highway on Thursday.
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